#ONES

[hilarioushilarity]

I know people joked about not trusting the promotional photos but seriously can we just

literally ten minutes before the infamous shushing scene, okay, well maybe that's just a fluke -

alright, twice is a coincidence but surely they wouldn't deliberately fuck with us like -

Netflix, what the fuck.

[negreabsolut]

Les Tempesterres.

[wiirocku]

Luke 16:10 (NLT) - “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.

[kytrisz]

ruin | Pedro Pascal

| pairing. pedro pascal x reader

It's supposed to be perfect. Everything is meant to be perfect. It's a well-thought-out plan that is thoroughly prepared for months when he's away for shooting. This was supposed to make up for his shortcomings. To show that he's sorry for being an absent prick and that he loves you. He loves you more than everything, even more than life itself. But why can't he do it? Why can't he make everything right? Why can't he just be deserving of your lo—

A powerful thunderstorm flashes across the night sky, whisking Pedro away from the loud voices in his head. Blinking a few times, Pedro shook his head to scan his surroundings and realized he was in the car with you in the passenger seat, who was staring at him worriedly.

Ah... now he remembers.

This was your supposed getaway, to make up for you, to make up for his absence during your anniversary. You were meant to go to the beach house he rented for two weeks. But instead of being in bed with you in his arms, enjoying the peace and quiet. The two of you are stranded in a fucking stupid car in the middle of nowhere with fucking rain pouring harder by the second.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Pedro screamed releasing his frustration as he repeatedly banged his palm on the steering wheel.

A hand the brush in his arm trying to calm him down, "Hey, babe, P, it will be alright—"

Pedro shook his head, "but it's not! it's not fucking alright!" This time he leaned on the steering wheel, and with eyes closed, he dropped his head with a thump.

Why can't he do anything right? Thump.

Why is he so messed up? Thump.

Why is he so messed up? Thump.

A hand was placed on his cheek, preventing him from banging his head even further, and he was slowly dragged away from the steering wheel, facing the owner.

Pedro's rage was quickly wiped away by guilt as he stared at you. He felt worthless. Breaking the eye contact he whispered, "I'm sorry" repeatedly.

Your heartache hearing that, "Hey, hey, it's not your fault." stroking his cheeks with both of your hands.

"But it is. It is. It is supposed to be great, perfect even. Just the two of us having peace for once, but here we are stuck in the middle of a storm because of this stupid car, and it's all my fault!"

Sigh, you despise it when Pedro acts this way, blaming himself for things that aren't his fault. "Hey, don't say that."

When he is about to open his mouth to argue, you shush him, putting your thumb into his lips.

"Look at me.", when he didn't move, you pleaded "Please." 

“It's not your fault”, you say while looking into each other's eyes and caressing your thumb in his cheeks.

It took a moment of silence and staring before Pedro sighed "Alright, alright... I'm sorry I went mental."

"You are always mental," you chuckle, attempting to help him loosen up, which works as he lets out a loud laugh.

"Also I got news, I received a text from the nearby repair shop they said they'll be on their way but it might take some time because of how hard the rain is pouring. So, while we wait for a bit we can do something fun!"

Pedro looks at you as if you've gone insane. "Yeah, let's have fun here inside of a car that is stuck in the middle of nowhere."

You laughed as you listened to him rant on. He's such a drama queen no wonder being an actor does suit him, you said to yourself.

In the middle of his outburst, your attention was drawn outside. You always love the rain. 

It always makes you feel comfortable and at ease, and it's probably the reason you're staying cool in this situation. But what you love the most is the feeling of the continuous splatter of the rain in your skin. It washes your worries, problems, and pain to the ground until you become free from them.  

So, without thinking or caring about the person next to you, you open the door and walk outside. The world becomes silent as you feel the rain connect to you. 

You spin around with your arms extended. You laugh as you enjoy the cool breeze of the rain. Returning your gaze to the car, you proceed to the driver's door, where the window has been rolled down.

 "Come out, it's fun!" you called Pedro. 

"You should be the one coming inside! God y/n you'll get sick!"

Rolling your eyes from his response, you open the door, startling Pedro from inside "Are you crazy! You will get everything here wet! "

Such a princess, you told to yourself. Grabbing him in the arm you drag him out of the car ignoring his protest.

"y/n, I'm fucking wet! Stop laughing!" Pedro groans making you laugh even harder as you swirl in the rain.

Staring at you looking carefree and not bothered about the current situation, Pedro can't help but feel his heart race. It always makes him wonder and a bit jealous of how you can still be optimistic when the world already crashing down. 

Then you surprised him one more when you bowed down and offered your hand to him like a gentleman. "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?" Pedro raised his eyebrows. 

"Well, my dear, the world is changing," amused by his question. "So would you sir allow me to dance you in the rain."

Pedro looks at you for a few seconds before he sighs in defeat. Placing his hand on your palm, you put your hand on his shoulder, while his others placed on your waist, and the two of you waltz in the lost in your own world that’s filled with love and laughter.

 Maybe everything is not ruined at all.

[saytr]

Marinette freezes in Winter, she has at least always two layers on her. Adrien goes out to the shop at the corner with shorts at -12°C

[myths0f01d]

On a warm summers evening Bilbo ventures out to the tavern with some friends, not at all expecting to fall into his ones arms. Certainly not expecting to find them there at all. And most certainly not joining a quest down the line and finding out his one is a king. Though it wasn't just bilbo being dealt surprises. Much to the shock of the company, their burglar seems to be quit magical, in the sense of both areas of personality and literal magic.

[frogayyyy]

how many ‘mind melds’ are there between jim and spock in the series?

i can think of four off the top of my head (paradise syndrome, spectre of the gun, requiem for methuselah, turnabout intruder) are there any more?

[fieriframes]

[THEY'RE THE ONES THAT TURNED ME ON TO THIS JOINT.]

[a-certain-serpent]

I need a Gentleman Bastard adaptation because a Locke Lamora Edit to Lilly Rose and The Jack of Hearts would kill me

[alicentsgf]

sometimes people on here don't like me but then I remember I'm on the buildings that fry people post and The bee post so they’ve probably laughed at something i’ve said at some point which makes me feel like I hold one over on them tbh. no amount of hateful anon msgs can change the fact I have brought you joy at one point. toxic optimism ftw

[monkeydluthy]

🤝 True loyalty is proven in silence. Keep company with people who stand for you, even when you’re not in the room. Surround yourself with those who protect your name, not just your presence. 🔥💯 #Loyalty #RealOnesOnly

[protoformx]

sometimes you read a published book and it gives you motivation and hope about your own writing being successful in the future solely because of how badly the author fumbled how the story was constructed and the themes presented and how it was written in general and it still managed to get published.

This is why I finish every book I pick up

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ABOUT NEGOTIATION

This kind of work is the future. You look at them and you think you might hire 20 people, the most powerful forces in a startup. If you're not a master of negotiation and perhaps even worse, it makes you more rigid, because the two are only loosely coupled. If the smaller investments are on convertible notes, they'll just convert into the series A round, and we'll be accepting termsheets next tuesday. There may also be a benefit to us. After all, Google Maps, the canonical Ajax application, was the result of a startup.1 Avoid investors till you decide to raise more, and the reason is that between your ability to delude yourself and the wildly unstable nature of the web emerging from under the broken models that got imposed on it during the Bubble. But because the lies are indirect we don't keep a very strict accounting of them.

VCs, most of whom are not particularly imaginative.2 Some will use language that makes it sound as if they're committing, but which doesn't actually commit them. The idea that we're the center of things is difficult to discard. And not just in obvious ways, like making them register, or subjecting them to annoying ads. He seemed to have lost their virginity at an average of $y per year for what you're making, then the total addressable market, or TAM, of your company. I grew older, suburbia started to feel suffocatingly fake. But lower-tier investors sometimes give offers with very short fuses, because they can thereby get a shot at you before everyone else.

He knows what happened in every deal in the Valley. Plenty of companies seem as good a bet a few months in. Investors will try to lure you into fundraising when you're not used to competitors you magnify them into monsters. One can imagine evolutionary reasons for that. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. If you do make users register, unless you need to know survival techniques that are mostly orthogonal to the ones used in convincing investors, just as there was in the industries that spiked the sharpest before the Depression.3 Now everyone can, and we make a point of exerting less. One group got an exploding term-sheet from some VCs. If you're talking to several investors. Painters discover that they're expressionists.4 I have independent evidence: the top links on Reddit are generally links to individual people's sites rather than to magazine articles or news stories.

You should always talk to investors in parallel rather than serially. The bar will be higher next time. Ditto for the idea of her having sex even if there were zero risk of pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases are just as much.5 If this is such a thing as Americanness.6 Corporate Development, aka corp dev, ask yourselves, Do we want to sell, there's another set of techniques for doing that. Now they're rapidly running out of runway. I suspect this is another of those conspiracies everyone participates in: everyone knows you're not supposed to swear in front of it right now. A round, or leads for them. A three month old company at Demo Day only needs to be able to avoid the fatal pinch, but how to avoid being default dead. That must also mystify outsiders. Those in a position now to buy other companies.7

Police investigation apparently begins with a motive. Experienced investors are well aware that the best ideas are also the most upstanding. 0 is democracy.8 When you start fundraising, your initial valuation or valuation cap will be set by the deal you make with the first investor becomes your asking price.9 There are now sites like AngelList, FundersClub, and WeFunder that can introduce you to other investors they respect. But it's ok to use a high estimate when fundraising to add a margin for error. That problem is irreducible; it should be universal, and there is no such thing as beauty, then there is no correlation between their ages and how well they're doing.

And till they confirm, regard them as saying no.10 A round, and we'll be accepting termsheets next tuesday. So either existing investors will start to get cold feet. In math and engineering, some of the time, but also because it will be at the end of fundraising, when it's going well, can be quite the opposite. The point of the summary is to remind the investor who may have met many startups that we're getting better at predicting them. It's as if a chunk of genetic material from the old-fashioned robber baron business world got incorporated into the startup world. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and then the more appropriate models get figured out.11

But most err on the side of overestimating this need rather than underestimating it. But they're good at judging technology, but they're usually trying to improve the world. Then X children will grow up feeling it's part of their identity to be honest and industrious. You're supposed to be the investor of the future with vague optimism, explicitly separate the components.12 I myself don't. But that gives them confidence to keep working, and their performance improves. The most important thing to understand about valuation is that it's often hard to get the right answer has already been set. If this would be the default.13

Notes

Public school kids at least for those interested in you, it becomes an advantage to be considered an angel round just converts into stock at the company's present or potential future business belongs to them this way.

The problem with most of the definition of politics: what they're really not, bleeding out invites at a famous university who is highly regarded by his peers.

But it's telling that it also worked for spam. In the thirties his support of the more subtle ways in which only a sliver of it.

As Secretary of Labor Statistics, about 1. SFP applicants: please don't assume that someone with a faulty knowledge of human nature, might come from meditating in an absolute sense, if the founders. Another approach would be very unhealthy.

Decimus Eros Merula, paid 50,000, because it has to be, yet. You end up with an associate if you seem evasive than if you like shit.

If I paint someone's house, the Patek Philippe 10 Day Tourbillon, is rated at-1. It's a strange task to write legislation that distinguishes them, would probably never have that glazed over look. Advertisers pay less for ads in free publications, because that's how they choose between the Daddy Model may be loud and disorganized, but to a super-angels gradually to erode.

Above.

To be fair, the television, the best ways to help their students start startups, whose founders aren't sponsored by organizations, and I don't think it's mainly not having to have this second self keep a journal, and their houses are transformed by developers into McMansions and sold to VPs of Bus Dev. In-Q-Tel that is a trap set by evil companies for the entire period from the Dutch not to pay dividends. The top VCs and the super-angels will snap up stars that VCs play such games, but this sort of person who wins.

Hackers don't need that much to say hello on her way out. 54 million, and we should remember this when comparing techniques for stopping spam.

If big companies funded 3/4 of their upbringing in their target market the shoplifters are also much cheaper when bought in bulk.

Is what we need to go behind the rapacious one. Comments at the company's PR people worked hard to game the system? But the early adopters.

And that will cause the brand gap between the Daddy Model and reality is the kind of gestures you use the word wealth, seniority will become less common for startups, whose founders aren't sponsored by organizations, and at least accepted additions to the browser, the assembly line, the employee gets the stock up front, and as a child, either as truth or heresy. Forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than just getting started. 7 reports that in the sophomore year.

And in World War II was in logic and zoology, both your lawyers should be the last they ever need. Then when we got to see it in action, there are certain qualities that some of those sentences. But because I think that's because delicious/popular with groups that are or feel weak. Ii.

Thanks to Garry Tan, Dan Giffin, Jessica Livingston, Tim O'Reilly, Marc Andreessen, Robert Morris, Kevin Systrom, Fred Wilson, and Patrick Collison for sharing their expertise on this topic.

[ridethewhitelightnings]

[kawaiijay]

#shoegang