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a-god-in-crime-alley · 10 months ago

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So I’mma do a quick rant on Tim and the whole “forever 17” thing people are always going on about.

Disclaimer: some of this is based on my own experience with how I changed as I got older and comments from people that I went months and years without seeing.

I’m AFAB so it’s not quite the same. But I’ve never been one to remember a skin care routine and have relied on good genetics and good hygiene to make this point.

When doing some calculations for another post (you’ve probably seen that post I reblogged about the batkids ages) it hit me WHY it doesn’t look like Tim has aged.

Sure it might just be a style choice because DC wants to keep a chokehold on their Teen audience with Tim. (Even though Damian is RIGHT THERE!!! DC stop making Damian look like Tim for the love of GOD!)

A lot of people don’t actually CHANGE that much from ages 16-24 as long as they are keeping to the same exercise routines and diets. With the exception of Tim’s Brucequest, he kept to a fairly stable routine for Years!

The reason most people change so much early on is because they drop off their usual exercise (gym class) and repetitive diet (school or packed lunch). So you see people’s weight fluctuating (this can have an effect of visible face shape) hair either thinning or thickening and skin either clearing or getting more acne.

Add this to Tim probably having pretty good genetics (his mom looked like she was maybe pushing 30 when she died but was probably closer to mid 40s. Both Janet and Jack were around 10 years older than Bruce, who would have been mid 30s at the time.)

Tim not showing any signs of facial hair can also be down to genetics. Some cis men just NEVER get more than a single chin hair, maybe a max of 5 sparsely scattered along their chin. Those guys usually just pluck them out. They never actually have to shave. Though I think we Have seen Tim shaving again one point. Can’t remember when.

Either way, it makes sense for Tim not to actually look his age in any more than muscle mass. He’s noticeably built compared to how he was when Damian was introduced. (When the artists are going for a more realistic art style.)

Then considering his most recent dimensional adventure to save Bruce after the shit with Failsafe, you see just how much older he looks next to his mother (from that universe) and she didn’t seem that surprised with how he looked. Meaning her version of him is probably around the same age, and anyone who read that issue can see she looked pretty young.

Add all this to the fact it’s Canon that Jason is 23! He’s only at most 3 years older than Tim but is probably closer to 2 years older. (With Jason being 15 going on 16 when he died. And Tim was 12-13 by the 6 month mark after Jason died and Tim became Robin.)

So in conclusion, DC needs to stop acting like Tim’s still a Teenager and acknowledge that he’s a lot closer to 21 (hell, if we go by proper calculations he SHOULD BE 21).

What I’m saying is give us Tim going out for drinks with his older brothers. Have him show up at Jason’s after something bad happens and ask if he’s still up for that drink (in reference to that one time Jason offered to get a 16 year old Tim into a bar.)

Give us Funny Drunk Tim shenanigans to balance out that Dick is a miserable drunk! Have Jason get stuck babysitting both of them because he’s the only one that can actually hold his alcohol. Have the Girls be watching and laughing from across the bar because they unintentionally had their Girls Night and the same place the guys had their Boys Night.

Please DC, I am Begging you!

#tim drake #dick grayson #jason todd #Batfam #Tim isn’t 17 and I will die on this hill #neither are any of the Core Four #Connor isn’t even SUPPOSED to look like he’s aging because he was artificially aged in the cloning pod #Connor looks like a young 20 something and he’s supposed too!!!!#Literally all three of the others are Metas with powers than make aging moot!#Bart has super speed and such has super Healing #Cassie is a Demigoddess!!!!

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wahbegan · 5 years ago

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Blah Blah Trailer Things Blah I’m So Weary

All right w/e you’d think i was getting paid for this the way i crank them out even when I have no desire to but fuck it as all the ones before, under a read more so you don’t have to scroll and shit and so that if someone makes a super obvious correction in the first few notes i can change it and nobody will be the wiser tee hee hee I am gonna stick to things that haven’t been confirmed so shit we already know like “There are additional flashbacks to when they were kids, Mike still lives in Derry and has been tryna figure out how to kill It through...tripping, apparently? They meet at Jade of the Orient like in the book,” etc. I won’t touch for the sake of brevity. I also won’t go over things I did in the last one

1. The flood of water in the sewer COULD be right after they actually kill It, in the book they kill It in the early morning, and Its death coincides with a massive storm destroying the town, starting with the sewers flooding and backing up

2. Adrian Mellon, post beating and being thrown off a bridge by homophobes, as Pennywise mockingly offers him help before eating him. This is STRAIGHT out of the book, right down to the silver eyes Pennywise is sporting i’m very excited

3. Bev walking in the rain looking shaken up seems to be her right after having her fight her way out of her abusive boyfriend’s place, we know they’re keeping that intact courtesy of the bruises on her arms in the Mrs Kersh trailer

4. Not sure where Eddie’s standing in this child-to-adult montage, i can only guess that maybe Ben is outside that bar he gets shitfaced in before he goes back to Derry? But that’s a shot in the dark. I know Bill’s standing at the storm drain where Georgie got dragged in, which we saw It taunting him in Georgie form briefly in the last trailer, and Mike due to the area and the police lights on his face, seems to be investigating child murders like he was in the book. It’s what prompts him to call the other Losers. Richie is at the Paul Bunyan statue

5. So yeah the carnival seems to play a bigger role than just the backdrop where Adrian first has trouble with the homophobes like in the book, Bill probably follows a lead there, possibly investigating what happened to Adrian aaaaand finds Pennywise chewing down on some kid right behind a glass he can’t get to him from in a mirror maze, ostensibly just to fuck with him. Brutal and sadistic, i gotta say i love it even though it’s hard to analyze further than that since there isn’t anything even remotely analogous to this in the book. Oh, the little swinging punch clowns are done up like Tim Curry’s Pennywise, that’s a fun easter egg. Also Pennywise’s long tongue on the glass is reminiscent of The Leper’s tongue from the book, probably did that on purpose.

6. Oh yeah confirmation Bowers is alive and in a mental hospital, and Pennywise is calling him back, apparently via red balloon instead of the moon which BOOOOOO but whatever

7. Since they changed it from the book a bit to revolve more heavily around Neibolt Street, that seems to have more prominence in this half of the movie as well, with lots of shots of them going into it, whereas I don’t think they touch it as adults in the book. I do like the fridge shaking like It’s about to come out of it like It did in the first movie to eat Eddie. Clearly lots of call backs so that’s fun. Actually, you know what? It could be Stan’s severed head with a bunch of balloons in there cause there’s a scene like that involving a (different) fridge in the adult half of the book/miniseries

EDIT: Okay, according to someone on youtube who saw Comic-Con footage, that IS the case damn i’m right once in a while except in this case Stan’s head...the youtube source didn’t say whose head it was but i’m...there’s no way it’s not Stan’s goes on to sprout spider legs and crawl at them a la The Thing so that’s pretty awesome

8. “I’ve seen all of us die” is an interesting line. Now, in the book, fUCKING STAN YOU FUCKING BASTARD ANDRES MUSCHIETTI YOU LITERALLY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM STAN AND GAVE IT TO A DIFF-ahem. Forgive that little outburst. In the book,...SSsss.....hrng. Stanley Uris is the one who seems to have visions or at least a sense of the future, not, Bev, as well as some vaguely defined psychic somethinerother. Obviously, her kidnapping slash Deadlighting slash empty eyes slash floating thing never happens in the book, so once again, no real way of knowing if it’s a Dr. Strange circa Infinity War thing where she saw a possible or a bunch of possible futures or just Pennywise fucking with her to make her feel hopeless thing. I mean obviously we know they don’t all die so i’m just curious about the nature of her vision she had in Its lair. Obviously some of it came to pass, but...i just don’t know if it was a vision from The Turtle or a trick from It, or possibly a little of both. But it’s one of those

9. Oh yeah right that....that’s definitely Stan’s death scene. Not that there was any question, really, but this is solid confirmation he takes a one way ticket out of Clowntown on the Razorblade-in-a-Bathtub Express

10. Oh I forgot to say about the alien-looking spikes i think that’s the blasted-up exploded remains of whatever it landed in just btw

11. Okay so Bill as an adult back in the basement with a screaming ghost Georgie confronting him in a very similar way to when he was a kid, Bev back in the bathroom where she got bullied and it seems like her childhood bathroom? Filling up with blood and...trying to help someone out of the blood lake? Okay.

I have a theory about all this.

I think it’s them interacting with their younger selves. I think.....

I think The Ritual of Chud is going to manifest differently for every single one of them, and it’s basically going to be them going to some mindscape where they go to their kid selves, to their worst and darkest moments, and are either trapped there in despair or have to save their younger selves. Think of The Haunting of Hill House’s Red Room. I THINK that’s what’s going on here. Judging by...I��m almost positive Bev is reaching out her hand to pull her younger self out of the blood, and you can see young Bill behind adult Bill in the background while Georgie’s going “what the FUCK you’re the worst brother EVER” at him so look i think i’m right, okay?

12. When Bev smashes the mirror, it looks like, you know how in the first one Henry goes to carve his face on Ben’s stomach but only gets the H? In the book that scar disappears when he grows up but then comes back after Mike calls him and it looks here like not only has the scar come back but It has either actually cut the entire name down there or at least made him hallucinate that the entire name has appeared on his stomach. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s the latter, some kind of hallucination Bev’s trying to break by shattering the mirror.

13. Yeah so if you hadn’t read the book, that’s pretty much definitely Eddie Richie’s holding, and he’s pretty much definitely dying and his final words are pretty much definitely gonna be “Don’t call me Eds. You know I hate it when you...”

14. Oh yeah right I’m pretty sure the underwater monster is a more decayed Ms Kersh and it looks like instead of turning to candy, her house floods for some reason? And here she is being all spooky and underwater with Bev i do not know why the flooding is a thing but w/e uhhh look it’s not in the first trailer i don’t know where i think i saw this or how I got this impression but i think somewhere there was a brief shot implying the water like came out of a painting or something. Possibly a 1408 reference, actually

15. Gotta be Its lair disintegrating after the completed Ritual of Chud which yeah when they were all holding hands a few shots earlier and looking up at orange light i forgot to say that’s def the Ritual starting

17. Whoever this is, Bill i’m assuming flying through that tunnel to the rectangle of light is pretty close to straight out of the book Ritual of Chud

18. Mike tripping, as per mentioned

19. Given the shit all over them and how emotional Richie is, it seems like this would be at the end after they leave the sewers? Idk his scream could be about several things, but it’s just the kind of scream that says “my best friend in the whole wide world and completely hetero lifemate just got his arm bitten off by a weird giant spider alien thing and bled to death”

20. Andres Muschietti mentioned the underground clubhouse would be part of this movie, as well as the “tripping and coming dangerously close to dying via carbon monoxide poisoning so we can hallucinate about where It came from” part of the book but at the end Pennywise is clearly slamming the door which wasn’t part of that sequence unless i mean they may have just added it in for a scare or it could be one of the adults going back to said clubhouse and having a flashback leading into Pennywise fucking with them, either is a possibility

21. Okay so unfortunately i have egg on my face and this clearly is It (not Henry Bowers like i theorized) previously not in Pennywise form, putting on Its Pennywise form, possibly for the first time in a flashback.

22. Okay i am almost 100% sure Pennywise, Devourer of Worlds and Children, The Spider, The Deadlights, The Eternal Consumption, ends this trailer by saying “Hewwo”

#It Chapter 2

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mackloveswriting · 6 years ago

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Prompts

I decided to go ahead and publish my prompt list. I will probably add more later but as of right now, these are what I have. I will always accept your own plot and everything like that.

1. "What do you mean, work with him?"

2. "Cookies? Your bribing me with cookies? I mean they're good but not that good."

3. "He's right behind me, isn't he?"

4. "I heard that!"

5. "Do you trust me?"

6. "You're insane!"

7. "It takes a very broken, twisted soul to do what you did."

8. "How long have you been standing there?"

9. "Shut up!"

10. "I thought you were my friend!"

11. "I'm in love with you. Don't you get it?"

12. "When did you become so smart?"

13. "I can't take you anywhere. You want to start fighting someone."

14. "Babe, stop looking at me like that."

15. "Oh, sorry I wasn't specific enough."

16. "Why are you glaring at me."

17. "I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you!"

18. "Why aren't you afraid of me?"

19. "I hate you!"

20. "Right now, I don't know if I wanna kiss you or shove you off a bridge."

21. "I am way to sober for this."

22. "You love her don't you."

23. "I'd take a bullet for you."

24. "You're not as evil as people think you are."

25. "Are you sure I can't punch him in the face?"

26. "Was that suppose to hurt?"

27. "On a scale from one to ten, how bad do you think It would be if-"

28. "I made you breakfast, I know it's just a bowl of cereal but it's the only thing I can't burn."

29. "You scared me!"

30. "Did you just agree with me?"

31. "I never stood a chance, did I?"

32. "I worked so hard to be where I am now and I'm not going to let someone take that from me!"

33. "You think you're broken when you're just the bad guy."

34. "You don't remember?"

35. "I wanna cuddle."

36. "Do you love me?"

37. "Why did you have to drink so much?"

38. "He's not gonna hurt you. Not while I'm here."

39. "I'm sorry for being.. what I was before."

40. "You're a monster."

41. "I never wanna see you again!"

42. "Tell me you love me."

43. "Can I kiss you?"

44. "Stop asking permission."

45. "You're lying."

46. "Did you ever love me?"

47. "Be honest for once in your life."

48. "Can we make out?"

49. "I don't party."

50. "Why can't you respect that?"

51. "I'm just... not ready."

52. "I'm scared! Don't you get that?"

53. "He's not just a bad boy, he's a bad guy and I don't wanna be with the bad guy."

54. "So, that's a 'no'?"

55. "Get out!"

56. "I don't get why I'm to blame."

57. "You're a douchebag."

58. "I am here to protect you."

59. "That's not what an apology sounds like."

60. "Why would you love me?"

61. "You bug me, weirdo."

62. "You deserve better than me."

63. "I couldn't protect you."

64. "I don't want better than you! I want you."

65. "Because you might not like what you see and I can't lose you."

66. "This isn't my first time dealing with people like you."

67. "You're my drug."

68." He was worse than any drug."

69. "t's like a disease, it's like I'm infected by him."

70. "Are you doing drugs?"

71. "Ew, gross."

72. "I hate you so much!"

73. "I should hate you."

74. "No, you don't."

75. "Are you sure you wanna do this?"

76. "Why do I have to love him?"

77. "Leave me alone!"

78. "You're a freaking monster! I hate you!"

79. "Are you serious right now?"

80. "Why did you cheat on me with my best friend?"

81. "I'm not pushing you away!"

82. "I'm afraid that if you see the real me, you won't like what you see."

83. "I spent the whole middle school trying to get rid of the real me."

84. "You're perfect."

85. "I'm in need of coffee."

86. "Can I sleep over?"

87. "Movie night?"

88. "I need you to need me back!"

89. "It doesn't matter, cause in the end it all hurts the same."

90. "I'm so in love with you and I can't do anything about it!'

91. "I've been trying to push down how I feel but it is impossible."

92. "I should hate you so much, but I can't bring myself to hate you."

93. "Can I try something?"

94. "You're such a freak!"

95. "I'm your freak." 96. "I know that deep down, below that cold dark exterior there is a actual human soul."

97. "I know that your bad boy image is just an act, you don't have to hide around me."

98. "I'm sorry, no one should go through that."

99. "But that's no excuse to what you did."

100. "I'll always be here for you, but I can't look at you the same."

101. "You need help!" 102. "Please!"

103. "I want to shout it from the rooftops."

104. "Why do we have to hide?"

105. "I don't like all the sneaking around."

106. "Are you ashamed of me?" 107. "I don' deserve you at all, I can't understand why you picked me."

108. "Why don't you love me like that?"

109. "I'm never the one."

110. "He doesn't love me like he loves her."

111. "Who did that to you?"

112. "Did he touch you?"

113. "Is that a bruise?"

114. "Did you get hurt?"

115."you got hurt because of me."

116. "I could never blame you because it was never your fault."

117. "We're the cutest."

118. "I think we're end game."

119. "I'm Pregnant."

120. "No one really likes you."

121. "You don't think that I'm adorable?"

122. "He has a big head already."

123. "There is no way you're a virgin."

124. "Can we do this again?"

125. "How stupid do they think I am?"

126. "There is no way that he didn't cheat, his ex could not sleep over without them having sex."

127. "I'm failing everything."

128. "Can we talk about us?"

129. "I have a surprise."

130. "I-I thought you were breaking up with me.."

131. "I would never hurt you."

132. "Did you think that I would hit you?"

133. "I wanted you t fight for me."

134. "Do not disrespect me."

135. "I know you're not that guy."

136. "You sleep around, and you expect me to believe that you love me?"

137. "I don't even know that person anymore."

138. "How can you throw everything away like it's nothing to you?"

139. "I need you to be safe and being with me does the exact opposite."

140. "You're way more experienced than me."

Song Prompts

Tell me you love me - Demi Lovato

Hurricane - Luke combs

Think of you - Chris Young

She didn't have time - Terri Clark

Because of you - Kelly Clarkson

Like I loved you - Brett Young

If it wasn't for me - Brieanna James

In case you didn’t know - Brett Young

Good Girls - 5sos

Amnesia - 5sos

She looks so perfect - 5sos

Here without you - 3 doors down

Never know - Why don't we

Nobody gotta know - Why don't we

Sad song - We the kings

Heartbreak story - The wanted

Marry me - Train

She's in love with the boy - Trisha Yearwood

All in my head - Tori Kelly

Meanwhile back at mama's - Tim McGraw

Like we never loved at all - Faith Hill

My heart is - Tiffany Alvord

Unforgettable - Thomas Rhett

Die a Happy man - Thomas Rhett

Not meant to be - Theory of a Deadman

You are in love - Taylor Swift

Clean - taylor swift

Wildest dreams - taylor swift

Cold as you - taylor swift

Enchanted - taylor swift

Mine - Taylor Swift

Gorgeous - Taylor Swift

End Game - Taylor Swift

Delicate - Taylor Swift

Stay - Sugarland

If you only knew - shinedown

The weight - Shawn Mendes

Life of the party - Shawn Mendes

Like I did - Shane Harper

Ghost of you - Selena Gomez

Bang Bang bang - Selena Gomez

Sober - Selena Gomez

My heart can't tell you no - Sara Evans

A little bit stronger - Sara Evans

Take your time - Sam Hunt

Make you miss me - Sam hunt

Cop car - Sam hunt

Mess this up - Ryan Robinette

Yours - Russell Dickerson

Going out like that - Reba McEntire

Consider me gone - Reba McEntire

Lonely Call - Raelynn

Perfect - One Direction

Does he know? - One Direction

You and I - One Direction

Love you goodbye - One Direction

Break up with him - Old Dominion

You and Me - Niall Horan

Slow Hands - Niall Horan

This Town - Niall Horan

To much to ask - Niall Horan

On the loose - Niall Horan

Whoever broke your heart - Murphy Elmore

Tin man - Miranda Lambert

Kerosene - Miranda Lambert

Like I'm gonna lose you - Meghan Trainer

Someone else calling you baby - Luke Bryan

Crash my party - Like Bryan

Back to you - Louis Tomlinson

Greatest love story - Lanco

Need you now - Lady Antebellum

Legends - kelsea Ballerini

Peter Pan - Kelsea Ballerini

Never again - Kelly Clarkson

Teenage Dream - Katy Perry

The one that got away - Katy Perry

Used to love you sober - Kane Brown

Fall - Justin Bieber

The truth - Jason Aldean

Laughed until we cried - Jason Aldean

I got the boy - Jana Kramer

Why ya wanna - Jana Kramer

Shy - jai waetford

Getting over you - Jackie Lee

Personal - HRVY

I hate u, I love u - Olivia O'Brien

Out loud - Gabbie Hanna

Perfect - Ed sheeran

My girl - Dylan Scott

Human Diary - Daniel Bradberry

#prompt #imagines #dialogue #dialouge prompt #song prompt

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magnusmysteries · 3 years ago

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Part 27: Distorting Time

The Magnus Archives was a horror podcast. It is now completed. Many of the show’s mysteries were never explained on the show. I intend to explain them. Spoilers for the show, but also spoilers if you wanna solve these mysteries yourself. In Part 26 I said I thought the Distortion is a time traveler because it was stuck in the book at the same time as it torments Paul McKenzie. There is another reason to think so. In 2003 McKenzie was tormented by the Distortion and died. In 2007 Michael Shelley was Gertrude’s assistant and not yet the Distortion. So if it is Michael that torments McKenzie, that suggests time travel.

In a sturdy lock McKenzie says he sees the shadows form a leering face, which sounds a bit like Michael. More importantly when John asks Helen about her tormenting father and son McKenzie Helen says “Oh, well; the son, I was pursuing long before I was even Michael.” Meaning the father was pursued after she became Michael.

And this is the same conversation where we learn that the Distortion knows about the rift in Hill Top Road and therefore has the means to time travel. These revelations being put right next to each other are clues that the Distortion is a time traveler. I think all time travel in this show is done with the rift at Hill Top Road. (I don’t consider making time go faster in a place to be proper time travel. Like in Held in Customs when time went faster inside the box.) See parts 20 and 21 for more on Hill Top road and time travel.

So in the first timeline The Distortion gets stuck in a book. The attempt at the Spiral ritual does not happen. Maybe it was supposed to happen at a specific time and it couldn’t happen because the Distortion was stuck. Then the Distortion is freed and goes back in time to the Spiral ritual. The Distortion gets turned into Michael. Michael travels back in time again for unknown reasons, and torments Paul McKenzie.

When the Distortion becomes Michael he no longer wants any rituals to succeed. He wants to stop both the Unknowing and the Eye’s ritual. Michael tells Sasha to come meet him if she is interested in saving the lives of John, Martin and Tim. Michael then shows Sasha how CO2 can stop Jane Prentiss’ worms. How does Michael know that John, Martin and Tim will die? How does he even know Jane Prentiss will attack the archives? He is a time traveler and has seen the future.

Sasha talking about Michael “Then it said it didn’t care if I or my companions lived or died, but that “the flesh-hive was always rash”.” The flesh-hive is Jane, I’m pretty sure. What does Michael mean she is always rash? I think Michael has seen multiple timelines and Jane always attacks the Institute too early, that her attack could have worked better had she been more patient and created more worms first.

When Michael explains to John why he intervened he says the loss of the archives would have unbalanced the struggle too early. That’s oddly specific if Michael isn’t a time traveler. I think Michael has seen the future where Jane kills John and in those timelines the Unknowing succeeds.

Some time after Taking Stock Helen gives up her ability to feel guilt and she begins to work for the Eye’s ritual to succeed. Helen does not work with Elias, as she says in Checking Out. She knows about Elias' plan because she has seen the future.

When Jared attacks the institute too early, Helen saves Jared’s life from Melanie. Helen keeps Jared trapped (despite him being an irritant) because she wants John to get his Flesh scar from Jared.

Helen manipulated John into feeding on victims (see part 17) Maybe she’s seen a future where she didn’t do that and John was not strong enough to survive the challenges. Maybe if Helen hadn’t tricked John into feeding on Floyd, John would have died from looking at the black sun.

When Peter wants Martin to stab the body of Jonah Magnus, Helen shows up pretending to be Elias (see Part 1). Helen tells Martin that if he kills Jonah Magnus, John might die. And that the other’s at the institute will die. I think this is what makes Martin change his mind and not stab Jonah. I think Helen has seen the future where she doesn't intervene and Martin does stab Jonah and Elias’ plan fails.

Some more clues that Elias is actually Helen: Elias and some guards mysteriously vanish from prison. They entered Helen’s door I think.

Helen/Elias says John is able to find his way through the tunnels, because "I called you". It was established earlier that Helen was familiar with tunnels.

When John sees Jonah’s body and asks Helen/Elias is that’s your body, Helen/Elias replies “Not anymore. But not really, although if you harmed it, it wouldn’t go well for me.”

Helen is afraid to lie to John, as this gives John the means to kill her, as seen in Checking Out. So she says, it’s not really her body. Elias wouldn't have said that, it was really his body.

It wouldn't go well for me if you harmed it, says Helen. Which is true, her plan would fail. But she is being misleading, she wants John to think she means, “if you kill the body I will die”.

In A Gravedigger’s Envy Helen says “my physicality is as much an illusion as everything else about me.” A reminder that she can take on other looks. In Taking Stock John asks Helen what she sees if she looks in her mirrors. Helen says she don’t. I think Helen has no need to look in mirrors because she has no real appearance. She just looks like what she chooses to look like.

Why did Helen pretend to be Elias instead of just transporting Elias there? I think because Elias can’t lie. (see Part 12). I think at this point John was so powerful he wouldn’t have died if Jonah’s body was destroyed. Elias couldn’t have lied about that, but Helen has no problem lying to Martin.

Martin says Jonah had nothing to do with his decision to not stab Jonah, that he was just playing along with Peter. I think that’s not true. Slightly earlier Peter released the not-them and told Martin he could go help the people about to be attacked. Martin did not, suggesting Peter had Martin right where he wanted. I think Martin changed his mind because of John. His love of John doomed the world, just as shortly afterwards John’s love of Martin doomed the world.

#the magnus archives #tma #magnuspod #the distortion #michael shelley #helen richardson

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marcusssanderson · 6 years ago

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Good Morning Quotes Celebrating The Start Of Your Day

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Best Good Morning Quotes To Get You Started

1.) “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

2.) “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar

3.) “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

4.) “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

5.) “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses

6.) “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

7.) “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

8.) “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

9.) “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

10.) “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

11.) “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

12.) “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

Good Morning Quotes for Everyone

13.) “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

14.) “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

15.) “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

16.) “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

17.) “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

18.) “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

19.) “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington

20.) “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

21.) “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

22.) Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

23.) “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

Good morning quotes to inspire positivity

24.) “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

25.) “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown

26.) “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”– Denis Waitley

27.) “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.”– Albert Einstein

28.) “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

29.) “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

30.) “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

31.) “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do.” – Lucas (Rory Cochrane, Empire Records)

32.) “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Unknown

33.) “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.” – Unknown

34.) “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

35.) “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S. Haskins

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes

36.) “Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.” – Unknown

37.) “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

38.) “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

39.) “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

40.) “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – William Prescott

41.) “You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” – Winston Churchill

42.) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

43.) “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.) “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

45.) “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

46.) “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

47.) “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

48.) “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

49.) “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau

50.) “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes about success

51.) “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

52.) “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

53.) “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

54.) “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

55.) “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Tim Ferriss

56.) “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach

57.) “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

58.) “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar

59.) “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player

60.) “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

61.) “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

62.) “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” – James Allen

63.) “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren

64.) “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan

Beautiful Good Morning Quotes

65.) “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

66.) “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

67.) “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

68.) “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

69.) “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” – Ted Williams

70.) “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

71.) “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

72.) “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff

Inspirational Good Morning Quotes about dreams

73.) “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

74.) “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau

75.) “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley

76.) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

77.) “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

78.) “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

79.) “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”– Joseph Joubert

80.) “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

81.) “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

82.) “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

83.) “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

Inspirational Good Morning about greatness

84.) “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

85.) “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James

86.) “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

87.) “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

88.) “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

89.) “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

90.) “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good morning quotes that will enrich your day

91.) “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi

92.) “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga

93.) “Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.” – Henry David Thoreau

94.) “When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.” – F. Sionil Jose

95.) “I wake up every morning thinking…this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There’s no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.” – Anita Roddick

96.) “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” – George Washington Carver

97.) “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain

98.) “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

99.) “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But, Life salutes you when you make others happy.” – Charlie Chaplin

100.) “Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

More good morning quotes to give you inspiration

101.) “I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”– Paul Henderson

102.) “I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” – Larry King

103.) “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

104.) “Every morning, leave your worries outside your gate, because that’s where they pick up the garbage! Have a worry free day! Rise and shine.” – Bar Refaeli

105.) “To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” – Sidney Poitier

106.) “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live.

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Leafly Investigation: California Has a Dirty Cannabis Problem

Chris Roberts of Leafly Reports:

Last year Tim Blake, a co-founder of the Emerald Cup, California’s oldest and most prestigious cannabis harvest competition, realized he’d run into a problem with contaminated cannabis.

Once a hush-hush gathering open only to growers, the Emerald Cup is bigger and more commercial these days. But the marijuana movement’s hippie roots and “organic ethos” are still tangible at the cup. All of the cannabis is supposed to be grown under the sun, not grow lights. One of the Emerald Cup’s judges is an original Haight-Ashbury hippie who dresses in white robes and goes by “Swami.” (This is not an affect; he truly is an initiated swami.) Conversations about veganic and permaculture growing methods abound.

A survey of industry insiders suggests fewer than half of California dispensaries lab test the cannabis they sell.

So when the testing lab hired to screen the 2015 cup entries turned up contamination in almost 17 percent of entries—including banned pesticides, bacteria, and mold—Blake was horrified. Pesticides at the Emerald Cup simply aren’t supposed to exist.

Never again, Blake vowed. For the 2016 Cup, organizers instituted stricter-than-ever controls on contaminants. Entrants who submitted dirty samples wouldn’t only be disqualified; they’d be publicly shamed, with their names published as peddlers of dangerous product. “We’re going to be very strict,” Blake told The East Bay Express last spring. “People are not going to get away with anything.”

The December 2016 Emerald Cup drew more than 1,000 entries, including 735 strains of flower and 263 different concentrates. It also attracted more dirty marijuana than ever. Forty flower entries tested positive for pesticides. An unprecedented 25 percent of concentrate entries were disqualified for containing traces of banned chemicals. Blake was “dumbfounded we’d see this at that level,” he told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

The Emerald Cup is an elite, organic-minded competition for growers who harvest by lunar and solar cycles and plant their gardens in Hindu patterns instead of rows. The cannabis seen here is typically cleaner than the cannabis sold in the state’s dispensaries.

Which means California has a big dirty marijuana problem.

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Forty out of 735 entries in the flower competition at the 2016 Emerald Cup—and 25 percent of concentrates—tested positive for pesticides or other chemicals.

There’s no hard data available, but a survey of industry insiders contacted for this article suggests that fewer than half of California dispensaries and delivery services lab test the marijuana they sell. The actual figure could be even lower. After all, testing isn’t currently required under state law. In 2015, lawmakers passed a measure to require testing of medical cannabis, but that won’t be enforced until January 2018.

“Everything makes its way into the supply chain somehow.”

San Francisco dispensary operator

More troubling is what happens to cannabis that turns out to be contaminated. According to dispensary operators and other industry insiders interviewed for this article, cannabis rejected for mold, fungi, pesticide residue, or other contaminants often stays in the supply chain. It may end up on the black market, shipped out of state. It could be processed into concentrates or edibles. Or marijuana rejected by one dispensary may simply end up being sold across town by someone else. If your dispensary isn’t testing its products, you could be smoking some right now. It’s virtually impossible to know.

In a study published in October, Berkeley-based Steep Hill Labs claimed it found residual pesticides in 84 percent of cannabis tested over a 30-day period beginning in mid-September, the peak time in the state’s marijuana harvest.

All that cannabis would have failed safety standards in Oregon. In California, all of it can be sold.

Why does testing matter?

The potential consequences of contaminated cannabis recently hit home with the release of an article in the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

One of the article’s authors, Dr. Joseph Tuscano, an oncologist and researcher at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., had been treating a young man in his 20s with leukemia. After a stem-cell transplant, the prognosis was very good. The leukemia was gone, and the man seemed likely to recover. Then, very suddenly, he developed a severe lung infection.

A UC Davis oncologist’s article in this medical journal has opened questions about the safety of at-risk patients using untested cannabis.

One consequence of cancer treatment is that patients’ immune systems become so compromised that even flowers and houseplants can pose a mortal risk. It’s common for bacteria and fungi that healthy people would never notice to cause sudden, severe, and sometimes fatal pneumonia in cancer patients. That’s what happened to Tuscano’s patient, who survived leukemia only to die of what turned out to be a rare fungal infection.

Then it happened again. Another young leukemia patient, another good prognosis, another sudden and severe lung infection caused by the same rare strain of fungus. This patient, however, recovered. When Tuscano asked him about his lifestyle, trying to identify a cause or any links between the two cases, he discovered the two men both used marijuana. The dead patient had vaporized a cannabis “mist” medicinally as part of his treatment; the survivor smoked recreationally prior to his leukemia diagnosis—which was when he developed the infection “instantly,” Tuscano told me.

“When you have these rare infections, you wonder, ‘OK, how did this patient get exposed to this?’” he said. “We never suspected cannabis use … but after I interviewed the patient, one of the common links was the use of medicinal marijuana.”

It’s impossible to know for certain if the deadly fungus came from cannabis. Tuscano couldn’t test the cannabis the two men had used. It was gone. The next-best thing was to find out if the fungus was in marijuana generally.

Voluntary testing, poor results.

Unlike Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, there is currently no requirement in California for cannabis to be lab-tested before it is sold. Testing isn’t slated to begin until Jan. 1, 2018—and that’s assuming everything goes according to schedule. Some already worry the state’s adult-use rollout is destined for delay.

In the meantime, dispensaries, delivery services, and growers can voluntarily submit crops to testing labs to find contaminants and to determine their products’ THC content—a sought-after marketing metric, since the higher the number, the easier the cannabis is to sell.

A lab technician in Denver loads a tray of cannabis samples into a testing machine that analyzes the samples and reports their chemical content and strength. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

One of Tuscano’s colleagues at UC Davis, Dr. George Thompson, had a connection to Steep Hill Labs. The lab selected, at random, 20 marijuana samples they’d received from about 10 different Northern California dispensaries. Each was tested for rare and common fungi and bacteria. The result? Every single one of the 20 samples was contaminated with a variety of both. They contained E. coli, Aspergillus, various strains associated with pneumonia, pathogens known to cause common infections—as well as the rare fungus that killed Tuscano’s patient.

“All these organisms were in there, and so many other ones as well,” said Tuscano. “Before this, I never really suspected there was a link.”

A false perception of safety

Since the marijuana his patients consumed wasn’t tested, Tuscano can’t know for certain that his patients’ fungal infections came from cannabis. Instead, he can draw only a very strong and suggestive connection.

We don't know for sure if dirty cannabis led to infection. But researchers suspect a strong connection.

There’s also a few clear warnings. For starters, immunocompromised people should not smoke or vaporize marijuana, Tuscano and his co-authors of the letter say. Neither smoking nor vaping nor filtration through a water pipe destroys fungus. Cannabis ingested orally, for example through edibles or tinctures, is a safer option.

There’s a cultural phenomenon at work, too. Legalization and the widespread acceptance of physician-recommended medical marijuana—a proven political winner, even in red states—have created a “perception of safety,” the researchers wrote. Consumers and even regulators have “unknowingly ignored a product that can be contaminated with infectious agents and thus harbor potentially lethal risks

“People need to quit assuming what they get from the dispensary is safe,” Tuscano told me. “It needs to be tested.”

Caveat emptor at the dispensary counter

The problem is, under state law, it isn’t. Outside some local jurisdictions with their own testing requirements, California cannabis consumers take a leap of faith with every hit.

This leaves it up to patients and consumers to determine when a product is safe. Often, that relies on assumptions: assuming a dispensary is sincere when it says it tests its medicine, and assuming that test results in fact determine whether a product is or isn’t sold.

“I think you can tell when the culture of the shop embraces testing,” says Nicholas Smilgys, a co-founder and former chief buyer at Flow Kana, a San Francisco-based outdoor farm-to-consumer delivery service. A customer can demand to see a product’s lab results before purchase, but in high-volume dispensaries where a customer’s time at the counter is measured in minutes, such discretion isn’t always encouraged.

Lab rejects can reach the market

Kevin Reed is founder and CEO of The Green Cross in San Francisco. The dispensary has operated for more than a decade in various iterations, first as a storefront, then a delivery service, and now a combination storefront and delivery service. The store, one of the first to apply for a city license, has a history of activism and engagement that has earned it a good reputation among consumers. Before anything is sold, Reed has it sent for testing to CW Analytical, an Oakland, Calif.-based competitor to Steep Hill.

“A whole lot of shenanigans happen at the buying point.”

To this day, a “multitude of small and large scale commercial growers … attempt to sell” products that Reed’s testing discovers to be contaminated by pathogens or pesticides, he told me. The Green Cross rejects that medicine and sends the supplier on his or her way, Reed said, but “unfortunately, with the current [California] model, we cannot ensure that once a product is removed from our supply chain that it does not get sold to other dispensaries,” he said.

A lot comes down to a dispensary’s buyer, explained one San Francisco-based dispensary operator who spoke on condition of anonymity. “A whole lot of shenanigans happen at the buying point.”

How dirty product gets sold

The operator offered a hypothetical situation as an example: A new dispensary opens up. The owner is a marijuana neophyte, maybe a newcomer from law or tech or real estate. Unfamiliar with the goods on the market, the owner hands over purchasing power to someone with cannabis-industry experience. Now, suppose that buyer has a budget of $1,400 a pound and is approached by a grower with lower-end cannabis for sale. Neither party is interested in the time and expense of a lab test.

“The seller says, ‘It’s got some issues, but I’ll give it to you for $800.’ So he gives it to him for $800, and the buyer keeps the extra $600,” the operator said. “That happens a ton in the industry.”

A grower with lab-rejected cannabis is faced with a choice: Discard the harvest and eat the loss or shop it at a discount until it sells.

“Or let’s say I’m a grower and I have a hundred pounds of OG Kush,” the dispensary operator added. Only a few grams are required “for testing, [so] I’m only going to send in my best stuff. Does that represent my entire crop?”

If a lab finds pesticides in a batch of cannabis and a dispensary rejects it, the grower is faced with a choice: Discard the harvest—and with it months of work and investment—or shop the bud around until it sells. Unless there is something catastrophically wrong, such as rampant pest damage or mold so out of control it’s visible to the naked eye, “it makes its way to a buyer somewhere,” the operator said. “And if it doesn’t make its way as a flower product, it’ll make its way to someone who will extract it” into vape-pen cartridges, extracts for dabbing, or oil to be used in edibles.

One might think that’s a safe and acceptable fate, assuming the extraction process somehow kills off pests and eliminates contaminants. It does not, say lab scientists, who explained that when cannabinoids and terpenes are concentrated in extracts, certain fungi and pesticides are concentrated as well—sometimes disproportionately compared to the sought-after cannabinoids and terpenes.

But the point, the operator told me, is this: Very little marijuana is voluntarily discarded. “Everything,” he said, “makes its way into the supply chain somehow.”

California Spotlight

Some growers may “lab shop” to see where they can get the best results.

For obvious reasons, California’s testing labs all agree that marijuana sold to the public—and to sick, potentially immunocompromised people in particular—should be tested. When asked directly, in public, no dispensary operators will disagree.

But on other points, as each lab jockeys and jostles to position itself as the industry leader before testing becomes mandatory—with standards yet to be determined—there’s a noticeable lack of consensus. Some labs promise fungus test results in 48 hours. That’s not enough time to grow a culture from spores found on a sample, another lab counters. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based SC Labs, tested all the entries in the Emerald Cup competition. When announcing its troubling discovery of pesticides in 84 percent of its tested samples, Steep Hill called out both CW Analytical and SC Labs for detecting far less.

And as consumers fumble in the dark for clean medicine, testing labs are also receiving blowback from within the cannabis industry itself. It’s mostly a whisper campaign, but in the last few months before testing becomes mandatory, there is grumbling from growers and would-be commercial retailers that labs are overstating pesticide results in order to ensure they get plenty of business. Conversely, in some legal states, businesses have been rumored to engage in “lab shopping” to see which returns the best results.

“When you suck on a joint, you're sucking in unburned spores.”

Reggie Gaudino, VP of Operations, Steep Hill Labs

Reggie Gaudino is Steep Hill’s vice president of operations and one of the co-authors of the study that discovered contamination in 84 percent of samples. He posted a link to the peer-reviewed research letter on LinkedIn, the one calling for caution and for testing. “It got like 3,000 likes,” he told me. Then he posted a link to a story done by a television station based on the letter, with an eye-catching headline suggesting the role of “medical marijuana” in the death of Tuscano’s leukemia patient.

“You should have seen how I got my asshole ripped open by people who think it’s sensationalism,” he told me.

One common response, he said: “There’s no proof this came from cannabis!”

“Well, you had this guy who was under therapy, on a positive track for survival, and then suddenly, out of the blue, he gets this fungal infection. There’s a rapid onset, and it kills him before they can do anything. Where would he have got such a high fungal load to kill him so fast?” Gaudino asked.

“He and another patient both were medical cannabis users. So does that prove it came from cannabis? No. But when you look at the question [we] posed, it’s, ‘Was this fungus present on cannabis?’ And guess what? It is.”

“That fungus and many other pathogens are found on cannabis,” he went on. “Many of them are things we don’t even test for!

“And the stuff we got is from dispensaries that actually test. A whole bunch of stuff that doesn’t get tested, you can go and buy.”

Gaudino paused for a moment. “I told you that I was getting my asshole ripped open on LinkedIn,” he continued. “One thing I heard was, ‘You know, you’re burning it, how can there possibly be any viable spores?’ Oh, really? When you suck on a joint, are you sucking on the burning end? No! You’re sucking in unburned spores.

“They don’t want to believe what we’re saying because it means they’ll have to spend more money,” he said. “That’s what it’s all about.”

Correction: A previous version of this story mischaracterized the cannabis sampled by Steep Hill researchers. The lab tested 20 samples from approximately 10 dispensaries. Not all samples were from different dispensaries.

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Chapter 17: "Metal face."

#Paula reads SBR #Chapter 17 #HOORAY VIOLENCE #Steel Ball Run spoilers #Part 7 spoilers

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all of them!

oh jeez, why omg

1: Talk about the first time you watched your favorite movie.

i was sitting in the theater and was so amazed by everything. I hyped myself up for it by reading the book and it was so worth it. I still love httyd.

2: Talk about your first kiss.

OOOH boi. It was bad. We just finished watching zootopia, the dude kept staring at me, but I was so into the animation and the end credits and wanted to see who did what because I am a nerd like that. Dude had to tap me on the shoulder and just went for it. I felt nothing. Just that i was kissed and mentally just went “okay that happened, but I wanted to finish watching the credits…”

3: Talk about the person you’ve had the most intense romantic feelings for.

yeeeeee,not really sure anymore, romantically because of a relationship would be my ex, romantically as in a crush, well, I am a pining dork who never follows through with things so, that would be a long list…

4: Talk about the thing you regret most so far.

Not following through on said feelings towards people. Probably would be a lot better off in that department.

5: Talk about the best birthday you’ve had.

It was a snow storm on my b-day again and we were trapped in my friend’s house for a week and we made the catch from scratch with the old oven they had. It was pretty neat.

6: Talk about the worst birthday you’ve had.

the superbowl and painting the house took priority.

7: Talk about your biggest insecurity.

I am really insecure about my body, and if whoever likes me is okay with it. I don’t have flawless skin. It is scarred and it is ever changing with certain things and I have been trying really hard to care for it, but I don’t think that will be much help. I want to be as pretty and I think I could be, but there are just some days where I don’t think that is possible.

8: Talk about the thing you are most proud of.

My family and friends (cheesy I know). They have done so many cool things and are still changing the world and growing and it makes me so happy to see them progress.

9: Talk about little things on your body that you like the most.

I have a lot of dimples when I smile. My eye lashes are really long. I have a bunch of teeny moles. I got a scar on my thumb that I like to rub.

10: Talk about the biggest fight you’ve ever had.

Me and my mom I think over my grades back in high school. I can’t even remember the details of it other than being upset.

11: Talk about the best dream you’ve ever had.

Pink vader pollypocket shows up as me and my friends and parading this mall/airport/smoothieshop/homedepot hybrid which led to a telekinetic fighting ring where my bestie at the time macked out with the dude who was winning for info as we escaped pollypocket-vader

12: Talk about the worst dream you’ve ever had.

A tornado took everything away that I loved while I was chained down. Then i was scared and alone on a glacier in a circus, but it was water instead of sand, as an orca bumped it a bunch to get me to fall in the waters.

13: Talk about the first time you had sex/how you imagine your first time.

awkward af I imagine. I know a lot of stuff for it, but that isn’t going to help. My hair will probably be colorful or long though.

14: Talk about a vacation.

I went with my family to Puerto Rico. We saw the entire island and even some smaller outcropping ones. We went to the rainforest again. We saw all the varying shades of the ocean. Ate/drank coconuts. Enjoyed family time too.

15: Talk about the time you were most content in life.

I was just sitting in the living room with my family. I was on break, my siblings and I were just playing fantasy life, eating home made chex mix, watching horrible christmas romcom’s with our mom. Our dad was going to be home later. My cat was cuddled up into me. I really felt at home and safe.

16: Talk about the best party you’ve ever been to.

So I don’t go out much so I can’t recall.

17: Talk about someone you want to be friends with.

They are really cute and sweet. I am so curious about them too. I want to talk to them, but when I get the courage they leave early or I get interrupted. I just want to know them better.

18: Talk about something that happened in elementary school.

We always went to the country fair as a class to see the firetrucks, some class activities. Holding chicks. Milking a cow. Pulling up potatoes. Go to the petting zoo. Etc.

19: Talk about something that happened in middle school.

I was friends with the science teacher’s granddaughter and was frequently bullied. So when one of my bullies went to the bathroom, while we were all sort of distracted, he put a fake piece of poop in her seat. She came back and flipped out. He said “You left us a gift in the toilets and on the seat? How generous”

20: Talk about something that happened in high school.

My computer tech teacher got out a blow torch and a screw driver and roasted some s’mores for us.

21: Talk about a time you had to turn someone down.

I was not feeling this one guy. He was sweet, but was not my type. He asked me out on a date and I said no. Then I saw him at a class reunion and thankfully my classmate sat next to me because dude would not stop staring and trying to change my mind.

22: Talk about your worst fear.

... I am scared of dying (? on the list really) I want to do so many things and love and cherish people and to just have that suddenly stop, I don’t know how I feel about it.

23: Talk about a time someone turned you down.

I don’t go out much, or date so it was pretty much, “want to get a coffee together” “not really, no” “okay see you”

24: Talk about something someone told you that meant a lot.

My sister told me she was proud of my progress in my art.

25: Talk about an ex-best friend.

We just don’t talk anymore. I moved away and we stopped talking. I think about them a lot. I wonder if they are okay.

26: Talk about things you do when you’re sick.

Cuddle my cat. Drink tea or soda. crackers and soup are my diet for the day. sleep for ages. stay in bed.

27: Talk about your favorite part of someone else’s body.

I love when people smile. Their whole face lights up or crinkles and it is really amazing to see people happy.

28: Talk about your fetishes.

I wouldn’t know? Probably something vanilla??

29: Talk about what turns you on.

I am still figuring this out about myself tbh, and is super rare for me. Sometimes I just see a person and the rest of me is like “yes, that is good.”

30: Talk about what turns you off.

easy, noncon stuff.

31: Talk about what you think death is like.

Absence. Just a sudden hum in your ears. Everything is both light and dark. You feel weightless, as if you don’t remember what the rest of your existence was like. You are just there.

32: Talk about a place you remember from your childhood.

My yard from Oklahoma. We had an acre of land. Lots of exploring. We had several trees close to the house and a hill in the back that had a fence with horses. (May have shocked myself feeding said horses) We had a pretty little garden box surrounding the front door that lead to the driveway with clovers and various other flowers.

33: Talk about what you do when you are sad.

I hide away. I close myself off, I get quiet. I put on layers of clothes or at least conceal my face. I listen to sad music or something with a lull to it. I make sure no one is around so I can cry in peace.

34: Talk about the worst physical pain you’ve endured.

I bruised my hip or tailbone. Black bruising to the bone. I couldn’t walk. It hurt to sit down. I had to waddle everywhere, and even then I had pain shooting up my spine with each step. I couldn’t lean down or shift my hips to get comfy. Sleeping was impossible to do. I was shaking a bunch the first day with just moving.

35: Talk about things you wish you could stop doing.

Picking my face and scratching my neck. Nervous/bored habits die hard.

36: Talk about your guilty pleasures.

I love ghost adventures and spooky things, but I get so scared afterwards. I also love horribly cliche romcom’s. I also love to watch syfy cheesy movies or medical shows.

37: Talk about someone you thought you were in love with.

We were doing great too. We talked about the future. I had felt comfortable with them at the time. And then it changed, I didn’t feel comfortable anymore. It felt off, like a lie. I was hoping to feel something, but nothing happened. And I felt horrible about it.

38: Talk about songs that remind you of certain people.

Cheap Thrills reminds me of my friend Sparrow. Girl of Fire is my friend Tim. My sister is Here Comes a Thought.

39: Talk about things you wish you’d known earlier.

That I was going to be in school longer because of my major, or that my credits were worthless at this new university.

40: Talk about the end of something in your life.

My dog Highfive died back when I was in highschool. We had him for ten years and loved him so much, then he was gone. He got sick and it was just a matter of time, but it still hurt. I was the only one out of my siblings to go see him while he was not doing so hot. It was scary, but I am glad I got to say goodbye.

#coffeekina #asks #sorry this took long I have been busy

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110 Good Morning Quotes Celebrating The Start Of Your Day

Looking for beautiful, inspirational good morning quotes?

I was inspired by reading a piece that had quotes that wanted to help people start their day on the right note.

How we begin our day sets a tone for how our entire day will go – we want it to be on a positive note.

What better way to do that than with an encouraging thought or quote.

Below is a list of 100 quotes to start your morning off right.