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[lazeecomet]

How to teach someone to drive

Featuring my younger brother who has anxiety and has already been a passenger in a car crash

I learned to drive in spite of my parents. They got me an online class (no video, just walls of text and clip art with quizzes) and sat in the car, but they didn't really do any teaching. I failed my behind the wheel test on my first go around. I wasn't gonna have my brother go though the same thing so this is how I got him able to pass his test with 0 faults on his first try in about 6 months (and my parents never even knew it was happening)

Make sure this is something they want to do or feel like they should do. It's very hard to learn to drive if you don't think you need to learn to drive. my brother was against driving but ultimately conceded that he needed to learn at some point even though he didn't like the idea of it

Use the right car. Don't use a big truck or something with weird or large blind spots. I hated driving my mom's volt because i sat way too high in it and couldn't see out very well which feed back to point 1

Link it in with a fun outdoor activity. Are you going somewhere? Plan to do driving afterwards. Do not spring this as a surprise. since your already out and about go for a drive.

Plan a route. Look on Google maps for some cul-de-sac or neighborhood where there is only 1 or 2 ways in or out. This will ensure they can't get onto a main road and also cut down on other traffic

Park the car and take photos of the mirrors from the drivers seat. Show them what you have centered in each. Have them adjust the mirrors to match the photo

Drive around the cul-de-sac. The first few drives will only be about 10 minutes long. Show were to stop at a stop sign. show when to yield. get use to accelerating and breaking gently. Do a 3 point turn and go the other way for some variety. reverse the car against the sidewalk for about 30 feet. parallel parking comes later.

Repeat step 6 until they are comfortable.

Plan a longer route. Use Google maps to find a different neighborhood that has more cross streets and route out a 20 min weave though the neighborhood. with android auto/apple carplay/a phone clip, seeing the route to be taken and knowing what turns need to be taken ahead of time will add purpose to the drive. it sucks to drive around aimlessly. always have a destination

Drive the longer route. This should only need to be done once or twice. Point out any new road signs and what the mean and what to check for

Find the driver's handbook for your state and send it to them. It's usually not more then a 10-20 page PDF with lots of pictures and is a very quick read. the next step is dealing with THE PUBLIC so they should know ALL the rules of the road

plan a route along a less populated multi lane road. something that gets up to 35-45 mph with low traffic. you know the type

drive the multi lane road. go over merging and practice changing lanes at speed. point out new road signs and have them keep awareness of surrounding cars. is there someone behind them that wants to pass? move over. is there someone beside you in the blind spot? are they in front with their signal on? let them in.

its time to start extending the driving time. have them drive to the destination/event or drive home from it. stick to back roads. do not use the highway. google maps has a setting to avoid highways. just follow that. parking lots will now be the new practice backing up

when the situation presents itself, practice parallel parking. its not on the test but its just so good to know. if you could pull into a parking space have them try and parallel park instead

register online for the behind the wheel test and have them drive the car to DMV to take the test

and thats it. in ~6 months only driving one day a week for no more then 2 hours, you can get someone comfortable with driving. going from not driving to driving is all about building confidence. the steps need to be small enough not to overwhelm and the stakes low at the start to make messing up inconsequential. and speaking of mistakes, unless the error is unsafe, do not point out an error until after the situation was passed. its overwhelming and stress inducing if you point out the error while its happening as they will try to correct it, usually slamming on the breaks which is less then ideal.

for example, if they go though a pedestrian crossing without checking for pedestrians (even when there are none), point out how they didnt check, the signs that were leading up to it, and make a point to call out the next one so they do check. on the other hand, if they are about to make a unprotected left on green with cross traffic, STOP THEM.

I hope some people find this helpful. driving is stressful at times. learning how to drive does not need to amplify that

[cherry-bot]

You couldn't google "how to play [sport]." Hell, you couldn't even search it on Webcrawler or Lycos.

The other kids could tell you to "stop being offsides," but didn't have to tell you how to not be. So you'd get yelled at until you just left to go climb onto the chin- up bar and sit there wishing you could be your D&D character. Tennis, they wouldn't tell you how to not let them keep scoring. Baseball, you couldn't watch videos on how to actually hit the ball or find public batting cages to practice.

It would've been nice, not being completely useless in PE class or with the little league kids in their baseball games at the end of the cul-de-sac.

And yeah, if you got cornered by the father of an 18 year old girl you were interested in, and told that Texas has two legal ages based on whether or not a girl lives in her dad's house, and if you so much as ask her out, he's going to have you prosecuted for statutory rape and jailed for twenty years for sex crimes; you had no way to actually check the statutes because you had no way of knowing the county has a public law library.

Because the other dads knew you were single, had been gossiping over the phone, and figured you had something wrong with you.

Over the *telephone.*

Which cost 5¢ for a local call on a phone your parents were still *renting* from the phone company because they didn't want to buy one. And it still had a rotary dial.

(Also worth noting, one of those dads thought it was funny as hell to stuff a loaded shotgun up his daughter's prom date's nose when he answered the door. But I didn't find that out until at least five years later.)

[carolyncarillo]

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SONIC et les CHASSEURS DE MONSTRES (Film en français) durée: 28 min - Verity et Chelsea #sonic #chasseursdefantômes #verityandchelsea Devenir sponsor de nos vidéos ➡️ https://rb.gy/m4nxm9 🚀 Accrochez-vous à vos manettes et préparez-vous à une expérience totalement déjantée avec SONIC et les CHASSEURS DE MONSTRES ! Ce film de 28 minutes, mettant en vedette les audacieuses Verity et Chelsea, vous propulse dans un monde où le speed est roi et où les monstres pullulent comme des champignons hallucinogènes. Sonic, le hérisson bleu le plus rapide de la galaxie, n’est pas là pour jouer à cache-cache ; il est ici pour botter des culs et défier les lois de la physique ! Plongez dans cette odyssée bizarre, où Sonic croise le chemin de Shin Sonic, un personnage mystérieux aux pouvoirs obscurs qui va pimenter cette aventure déjà explosive. Ensemble, ils s’aventurent dans des dimensions tordues peuplées de créatures cauchemardesques, tout droit sorties de l’univers ténébreux de Sonic.EXE. Qui aurait cru que les cauchemars pouvaient avoir une telle vitesse ? Assistez à des courses effrénées, des combats épiques, et des répliques cinglantes qui feraient rougir les plus grands scénaristes de Hollywood. Avec des graphismes qui font exploser vos rétines et une bande-son qui vous fait vibrer jusqu’aux os, ce film est une expérience cinématographique que vous n’oublierez jamais. Vous êtes prêt à vivre une aventure qui déraille, où l’absurde et l’excitation se rencontrent dans un tourbillon de folie ? Ne restez pas sur le bord de la route ! Plongez dans ce chaos organisé et rejoignez Sonic et ses amis dans un combat effréné contre des monstres qui semblent tout droit sortis d’un rêve… ou d’un mauvais trip. SONIC et les CHASSEURS DE MONSTRES : un film qui fera parler de lui, mais attention, il pourrait bien vous rendre un peu… monstrueux ! Devenir sponsor de nos vidéos ➡️ https://rb.gy/m4nxm9 🚀 Nous suivre 🥳 ➡️ 👉 https://linktr.ee/veritychelsea ❤️‍🔥 👍 + 🔔 + 💬 Arcade funny comedy movie commentary drone 3am reaction trending trend game games pg13 craniacs sonic .exe scary jester youtube hotel google gaming arcade craniacs 3 AM among us Edward Centeno family friendly chuck e cheese lyssy noel lyssy noel 3am jester 3am you tube youtube videos Music : https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/4H8QU4iafPob1fjE0ko3XI tags: gaming, video game, super sonic, sonic mod, roleplay, sonic, sonic the hedgehog, caylus, space, super sonic mod, $1 shin sonic, $1000000 shin sonic, biggest shin sonic, Amira, Massilia et Papa, la Famille Ventura, Amina, Amelina Kiss, Lily-Rose, Sana et Lina, Madame Récré en français, Kiara Paris, Adem & Bilal, Nastya, Swan et Neo, Amira et Maman, Willibed, Sami, Robtec, Bébé Louis, Nastia en français, Peppa Pig, Vlad et Nikita en français, Titounis, Amira et Sami, Diana and Roma, Sami Adel. Ceci est une vidéo tous publics aussi appelé contenu familial, adapté aux annonceurs de type divertissement & humour favorable à la famille en français. Gros bisous de la part de Verity and Chelsea ! 😘 SHIN SONIC et les CHASSEURS DE MONSTRES (Halloween Special) durée: 28 min - Verity et Chelsea published first on https://www.youtube.com/@VERITYandCHELSEA/

[jeremiah225]

RIVAL BEGINING for diss track RAP

Reddit. has so much annoying Fans they're cul-de-sac and uses their film to make ruined childhood putting Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey from no mercy also they scam hell of Mercy they pop on Google they don't know how to react normal they just act stupidity on this site no point no use or worth it to this internet even Fanboys and girls are even horny on this Reddit oh wow who would have dreamed living down their mother's basement jack off even they cut their camera showing their inappropriate naked and clapping their booty all on internet Reddit and necessary toxicity talking about real life of us and prepared they don't have no life but theirselves because ain't right in the head. Tumblr. Looks new 24 year stays forever to make day of Tumblr he has a lot of good taste which matter fact he doesn't pick on people in fact he does not like YouTube because only thing they took our videos down because I'm saved for this one I only parody and make video games no harm no cap which I make good videos and make good poster only for now they need to stop bugging Our lives because on internet people Cults they ain't got nothing on us I take lower wouldn't take criticism for anybody because I ain't got nothing on me and I respect Tumblr it's because it's between nothing on anything The Fun Is Begin and Stream and Parody TO MAKE LIFE EVEN BETTER WITHOUT NOTHING ON ME.

[diana-daphne]

Thank you for the tag!!

Last song?: Cul-de-sac by welly

Favorite color? Pink!

Currently watching? School spirits and the x files

Last movie? The undertakers wedding, very off beat movie with Adrian Brody that I found oddly delightful!

Sweet/spicy/savory? Sweet and savory, but NEVER spicy or I will die sadly…

Relationship status? Delusional and delirious

Current obsessions? The phantom of the opera, and musical theater history in general, I’ve been binging waiting in the wings videos like a mad woman lol also formula 1, I’ve been watching it with my dad!

Last thing you googled? “Does Sudafed keep you awake” because I have a stuffy nose :(

No pressure tags! 🩷 @pinkishreveries @yeahawvampire @oneeyedcatlover

tagged by lovelyyy @zaegreus☺️❤️‍🔥

LAST SONG? "You're so Good to Me" by Mac & Monica

FAVORITE COLOR? emerald green

CURRENTLY WATCHING? youtube :)

LAST MOVIE? American Fiction, SO GOOD + frogs +satyricon mentions🔥I really recommend this film if you're looking for a satire that's actually nuanced, sad, and entertaining without being smug. I think a lot of you would love it <3

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? sweet :)) I love sweet and spicy or sweet and sour too🥓

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? single🤯

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? I'm taking an amazing class on Hellenic epigrams that are inspiring me so much. I hadn't realized how much I based a lot of my writing on them and they are so much fun to rediscover🥰 (I also get a little depressed because i'm so NOT a poet and I wish i could have my characters break into hexameter more often)

And i'm obsessed with drinking water because my throat just started feeling crusty yesterday.... idk how that's going to go...

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? trajanic cut... needed for school

tagging @headsinsand @seianus @hellokittysasuke @ozymandiaskingofkings ❤️

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[heckyeahponyscans]

Yeloli Watch Party time!

So it turns out the first episode WAS on Youtube, on a different channel and with Portuguese subtitles!  That was great, since I was able to use Google Translate + the subtitles to figure out the dialogue.

True story, I downloaded the video and painstakingly added English subtitles, but DailyMotion refused to upload it because the file was too big, lol.

Instead, here’s a Google Doc with the script: English Translation S01E01

Okay, on to the plot.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Magic Begins

Our story begins with narration explaining that Yeloli, the land of the fairies, is ruled by an evil queen who wants to enslave all humans.  The only thing standing in her way is a group of good Yeloli fairies who want to protect humans.

Currently evil Queen Pandora and leader of the good fairies, Evelyn, are having an anime magic battle.  (Nice Dutch angle!)  Evelyn fights Pandora, giving the other good fairies time to flee through a portal to Earth.

Evelyn casts a spell on Pandora, preventing Pandora and her army from entering the human world.

Pandora’s like, “Oh yeah? Watch this,” and performs a curse that will cause any Yeloli fairy who enters the human world to turn into a lifeless doll.

Evelyn flees to Earh, shouting, “CLOSE THE PORTAL!” But it’s too late; all the fairies shrink and turn into dolls.

(They do a good job giving the dolls a dead-eyed stare compared to the living characters.)

Evelyn casts a spell to alter the curse, so that if the dolls find an owner who truly loves them, they will regain their original size / powers.  Evelyn vows to care for the dolls in the meantime.

Cut to Mary, a fifth grader who, she tells us through narration, is bad at school and sports.  There’s something very depressing about the matter-of-fact way she tells us she’s “not talented.”  Like she’s not even mad or sad about it; she just takes it as fact.

Mary is minding her own business when a bunch of cherry blossoms magically swirl around her and lead her to a narrow alley with a mysterious glow at the end.  For some reason the first shot of the cherry blossoms is just . . . video of real cherry blossoms.  I dunno why, everything else is CGI.

Naturally Mary follows the glow and at the end of it she finds a little cul-de-sac with . . . a doll store!

Mary is entranced by the doll in the window, and if I was a little kid looking at that window display, I would be too.

She goes inside, of course, and admires the dolls, which Evelyn has hilariously posed to look bored.  I mean, I’m assuming the dolls can’t move on their own.  Or is this a Toy Story situation?

^ Also WHERE IS THIS DOLL’S LEGS?

Mary hears a voice and finds Evelyn casting a spell on a doll. My favorite part is Mary sees this lady levitating a doll and wonders, “Is this magic?”  Mary, please.

Evelyn then implants something that looks a lot like a spark (Transformers soul) from Beast Wars into the doll . . . and it comes to life!

Wow!  I’ve only known this doll for five seconds, but it seems evil!

The doll notices Mary, who backs out of the room which, fair.

Mary apologizes for intruding and Evelyn is like, “That’s okay.  Want a DOLL?”

Mary says she doesn’t have any money.  Evelyn is like, “Well, you can still play with them, they love visitors. Pick one you like.”

Mary picks the doll from the window--her name is Loli.  Magical light surrounds them both, indicating that Loli has chosen Mary to be her owner.

I was expecting Mary to gradually learn the doll’s backstory, but Evelyn straightout tells her that Loli is a princess who was cursed to be a doll, who needs love to break the curse.  She says many children have looked at Loli, but the doll rejected them all . . . until Mary came along.

tfw no one is good enough for your doll

So you’d  expect this would be the point where Mary gets the doll, but no, things take a very weird turn. Evelyn says Mary can have the doll . . . if she signs the Yeloli Contract.  What is the Yeoli Contract? WELL, it says the doll is your responsibility forever and you can’t give her away.  

You sign it via fingerprint.

That’s weird, right?  It seems like a mystical trap, right?  But the first half of the story frames Evelyn as heroic, so I dunno.  Just, if I had only seen the last half of the episode I would 100% think Evelyn was a villain trying to steal Mary’s soul or something.

Anyway, Mary signs, Evelyn boxes up the Loli, and Mary leaves, promising to take good care of Loli.  

Mary heads home . . . until a mysterious voice says, “Little girl . . . Little girl, GIVE ME YOUR DOLL.”

DUN DUN DUUUUUN, cliffhanger!

Some thoughts:

- Is Evelyn a fairy?  Or is she an Earth woman who knows magic? Why wasn’t she transformed into a doll with the rest of them?

- She brought Red-Eyes-Evil-Doll to life...  Is that doll a fairy, or can Evelyn bring regular dolls to life?  Red-Eyes could move / speak on her own, so maybe the fairy dolls DO all move when kids aren’t looking?

- Even though the CGI is older, the storyboarding, facial expressions, and movement are quite good, which is the key to being able to suspend disbelief. (Same reason I think Beast Wars made better use of their CGI than Siege, even though Siege is better in a technical sense... BW REALLY put effort into their facial & movement animations, while Siege was pretty lazy about it.)

- I like the shamelessness of the marketing. This is beyond “Cartoon shows character to get you to buy toy” . . . The ACTUAL DOLLS are magic and they need a child’s love to save them.  Amazing.

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walkswithdave: How do you do this? Meander through street view for hours?

It's my superpower. It's the dumbest thing that I'm proudest of.

1) I've always had a preternatural sense of where things are. When I was 22, I drove without a map, without directions, and without making a single wrong turn from Santa Fe, New Mexico to my cousin's house in Louisville, Colorado at the end of a cul-de-sac, deep in a faceless, monotonous subdivision, where I had only been once when I was 12. I just had a sense of how the neighborhood lined up with the light off the Front Range, particularly in the afternoon.

2) I use a lot of deductive reasoning. Patton is a celebrity with a view of the ocean so that means he probably lives in Malibu. So that's where I start. The video he made included views of the hills, views of the intersection, and views of the surrounding houses. That's a lot of information.  

3) And yes, armed with that, I can meander through Google Earth and street view for hours and never lose interest. This probably took about 10 minutes.

[unpack-my-heart]

Unpack My Heart With Words – Updated

Chapter 5 of my Hamlet/Theatre Reddie AU. The chapter is called When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

You can read it on AO3 HERE or I’ve pasted it under the cut.

Preview:

“Heh. I suppose,” Eddie responds. “I remember reading King Lear when I was at RADA, when I was convinced that I’d be the one reciting the lines, rather than instructing people how to read the lines. My Lear is based on someone from my past.”

Richie feels sick.

“Oh?” the interviewer probes, “I imagine you don’t think favourably of them, then? They’ve got to be a pretty painful relic, surely?”

Richie watches the on-screen-Eddie pause. Eddie’s eyes close before he responds.

“Quite the opposite, actually. Thank you so much for having me”

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The road Richie lives on is small and unassuming, a forgettable cul-de-sac. He’d moved there with Sandy, as soon as he got the email confirming that he’d ‘read Hamlet’. It hadn’t lasted. They’d broken up less than a year after they’d bought the house. She’d accused him of cheating on her, and he hadn’t denied it. He hadn’t cheated on her, of course, but it had given him a very convenient way of avoiding having a conversation he’d been putting off for several months prior. I’m still in love with the boy (man?) that broke my heart over a decade ago doesn’t roll off the tongue particularly well, nor is it all that believable. So they’d split. Richie had taken on sole tenancy of the small townhouse they rented, and Sandy had left him and moved back in with her parents in Bath, leaving him in Stratford-Upon-Avon on his own.

The road Richie lives on is small and unassuming, a perfectly pleasant and quiet area of a perfectly pleasant and quiet town. That’s why, when Richie was stumbling down the street pissed out of his mind at 3am after trying (and failing) to drink Ben under the table, and singing (or howling) along to Prowlin’ from Grease 2, a large number of people peered around their curtains and glared at him. He paid them no mind. He fumbled with his keys, dropping them six times, before his uncooperative fingers finally managed to shove the key into the lock and turn it. The stuffy, gaping black maw of his hallway stared back at him. Scoffing, and swearing at everything and anything, Richie managed to turn on all the lights in his living room and kitchen, and flop onto the sofa, without breaking anything – limbs and extremities included.

Richie smacked his lips. His mouth tasted like someone had been using his tongue as an ash tray for the last four hours, before telling him to gargle with white spirit. In short, it tasted like ass. Not that Richie remembered what ass tasted like. It had been far too long. His laptop sat, screen open and inviting, sat on the coffee table. Richie tugged it towards him, before lifting it over to his lap by the screen. He almost missed Sandy shrieking ‘if you lift it like that, the screen will come off in your hands and you’ll be fucked’. Almost.

The machine booted up, whirs and purrs breaking the silence. Richie’s fingers worked on autopilot, his alcohol-hazed brain taking several seconds to catch up.

Google: Edsss kaspbrK

Did you mean: Eds Kaspbrak?

Did you mean: Edward Kaspbrak?

Yes. Yes he did mean Edward Kaspbrak. Richie supposed he wasn’t allowed to call Eddie Eds anymore.

Edward Kaspbrak, 486,972 results in 0.0003 seconds

Richie’s eyes lazily scanned the first few lines of results. The first page was Eddie’s staff page on the RSC website. The second was Eddie’s twitter. The third was an article from the Edinburgh College of Dramatic Arts student newspaper. Richie clicked on it.

“The ECDA is super stoked to announce that the opening night of the student production of the Phantom of the Opera, directed by our very own Eddie K, …. Blah blah blah blah Eddie blah blah blah successful blah blah blah” Richie mumbled out loud to himself, heart tightening in his chest.

Backspacing out of the page, Richie clicked on the next article. This one was from four years ago, and was a review of a production of King Lear that Eddie had directed. Richie skimmed the article, before clicking on the embedded video interview at the bottom of the page. Eddie’s face fills the screen. He looks younger than the Eddie Richie had seen earlier that day. His face is smoother, and his mouth isn’t set in a harsh line. His eyes are soft. He looks happy. Richie feels sick.

“So,” the interviewer begins, “Tell me about this production. Your Lear is particularly arrogant and unlikable, and unlike other productions that I’ve seen, I actually don’t feel like your Lear had any redeeming features at all. He’s just … consistently unlikable. That’s a pretty bold move for someone’s debut RSC directorial job, right?”

“Heh. I suppose,” Eddie responds. “I remember reading King Lear when I was at RADA, when I was convinced that I’d be the one reciting the lines, rather than instructing people how to read the lines. My Lear is based on someone from my past.”

Richie feels sick.

“Oh?” the interviewer probes, “I imagine you don’t think favourably of them, then? They’ve got to be a pretty painful relic, surely?”

Richie watches the on-screen-Eddie pause. Eddie’s eyes close before he responds.

“Quite the opposite, actually. Thank you so much for having me”

Eddie leaves the frame, and Richie doesn’t listen to the interviewers cursory wrap up. His ears are ringing too loudly.

Richie backspaces, before blindly clicking on one last link. It takes him to the announcement of Eddie’s appointment as Artistic Director in the newsletter of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Richie can feel bile swelling in his throat.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is privileged and pleased to announce that  Edward Frank Kaspbrak has accepted the position of Artistic Director. Edward replaces Claire Van de Camp, who wishes her successor success. Edward joins us at a particularly exciting time, and his first production will the semi-centenary celebration of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a milestone marked with a production of Hamlet. We wish Edward a long and happy tenure with us, and we all look forward to working with him for years to come

A few words from Edward himself: “I’m delighted to join the RSC as Artistic Director to celebrate the momentous semi-centenary anniversary of the company. I am a man of few words, so I’ll leave you with the words of a wordsmith more skilled than I. And so, all yours. I am all yours, RSC, and I will serve you as long as you’ll have me.”

The last words force the bile that had been bubbling in Richie’s throat to surge up his oesophagus. He scrambles to his feet, laptop falling gracelessly to the floor, and scrambles to his bedroom. He pulls an inconspicuous wooden box from under the bed, upending it so white envelopes come tumbling out. He spreads them all out on the carpet, before he grabs the one marked 15th April 2019. He opens the envelope. Two pieces of paper fall out, and he stuffs one back in without looking at it. He unfolds the other piece of paper.

15th April 2019

And so, all yours

E

The paper is fragile – It had been recklessly torn in half, before it has been painstakingly sellotaped back together. Richie couldn’t count how many times he’d stared at those four words.

– X –

When Richie had first started receiving the letters from Eddie, he had become almost incensed with anger. He’d vented to Stan, ugly, venomous ranting.

“I fucking hate him, Stan”

“No you don’t”

“Yes I fucking do. He abandons me to chase some stupid fucking selfish dream in Scotland, and then has the audacity – the fucking NERVE – to write to me, to plead with me to forgive him?”

“That’s not what the letter says, Richie”

“Wow. Fucking Wow. I thought you were supposed to be on my side? You know, your best friends side?”

“You haven’t spoken to me for three months, Rich. I thought you forgot who I was”

“You’re being fucking ridiculous”

“Richard? Can I have a word, s’il vous plaît?"

“Uh, sure, Jacques”

Stan disappeared down the corridor, without so much as glancing over his shoulder. Jacques was stood behind Richie, holding the door to his office open with a gracious arm. Richie walked inside.

“What’s all this ruckus, Richard?”

“Nothing, Jacques. Just – just personal stuff, s’all.”

“Are you arguing with master Stanley about Edward?”

Richie felt himself stiffen.

“How did you know?”

Jacques sits back on his chair, and folds his arms across his chest. His scarf flutters slightly in the breeze coming from the oscillating fan on his desk.

“Did you know that I told Edward to apply for the Edinburgh school?”

“No.”

“Did you know that I convinced him to go when he was reticent to leave you?”

“No.”

“Well, I did. Send some of that rage my way, if you must, but please do leave master Stanley out of it, he really isn’t at fault here”

“He’s been writing to me. I want to burn them.” Richie blurts out, without really meaning to.

“Spoken like a true dramatist”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I mean, you’re being melodramatic”

“With all due respect, Jacques, you have no idea what you’re talking about” Richie snaps, in a tone that he’d probably regret later when he’s being disciplined for being mouthy to a member of staff.

“Perhaps. But perhaps you also have no idea what you’re talking about”

“Now you’re just not making sense”

“You’re nineteen, Richard. Things have a way of working out. Don’t burn the letters. Don’t send your memories of him up in flames. You’ll regret it.”

“Can I go now?”

“But of course”

As soon as he wakes up, Richie decides that he’s not going to rehearsal. This is partly because he’s hungover, but the hangover was nothing worse than he’d ever experienced after getting pissed after the opening night of every other production he’s ever done. It was mostly because he couldn’t bear to look at Eddie’s face. Or, perhaps more accurately, he couldn’t take nearly twelve hours of Eddie refusing to look at him with anything other than scorn. Not today.

He contemplates ringing to tell Eddie that he’s ill, but he doesn’t have Eddie’s number. He thumbs over the ‘Eds <3’ contact in his phone. Eddie’s old number, of course. Richie had a new number, too, in fact, he’d had several new numbers in the fifteen years since he’d last text Eddie. He had, however, copied the ‘Eds <3’ contact into every new phone he’d has since 2019. He assumed that Eddie had probably also had several new numbers since they’d last talked, but that didn’t deter him.

Now, though, the sight of ‘Eds <3’ in his phone turns his stomach more than the whiskey in the tumbler on his nightstand does.

He decides not to ring anyone.

Instead, he clicks on the YouTube app, and types in ‘Edward II’.

He watches other people say the lines that he’d whispered to Eddie until he falls asleep, tear tracks marking his cheeks.

Richie wakes up several hours later. His phone is buzzing furiously on his bedside table like an angry hornet. When he picks it up, the screen reads ‘Unknown Number’. He throws the phone on the floor.

The buzzing stops, but almost immediately starts up again.

He doesn’t answer.

The unknown number calls back again.

He doesn’t pick up.

His phone buzzes again, but this time its three short buzzes.

A Text.

He grabs his phone off the stained carpet.

From: Unknown Number:

Where the fuck are you?

From: Unknown Number:

Today was a fucking disaster. Where are you?

From: Unknown Number:

How dare you make me worry about you.

Richie stares at the last text, shrouded in the dark comfort of his room, for what feels like hours.

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Tips for Kicking A** on the AP Euro Exam

Hey kiddies, so it’s reached that time of year where all AP students are reduced to balls of stress as ExamCrunch is upon us. As a vet of the AP Euro trenches, and a current soldier in the trenches of APUSH, I just wanted to drop some of the things I’ve learned over the years as well as things I wish I had done. 

Tips under the cut:

i. Studying the Actual Content

All history courses can typically be broken down into a series of periods. The different periods will contain different important events; now I don’t know them off the top of my head for Euro, but you can easily google them or ask your teacher! These are super helpful for going through and figuring out what you don’t know. And here’s how to use this: 

 go over the things you know you don’t know very well first (kind of obvious, but surprisingly overlooked)

don’t feel like you need to know every single piece of specific information; as long as you know and understand a general timeline and how events fit into the bigger, overarching picture (like cause & effect, how did an event influence later events) you’ll be peachy!

that being said, do know the dates to the super duper influential events (i.e. war years, English Bill of Rights, etc)

for me personally, I can’t study by just rereading notes, so Crash Course is super helpful in helping to understand the impact of different events and I also watched some of Tom Richey’s videos to help myself review

make sure you are actually studying and not cramming! I know I’m notorious for not studying until the couple days before exams, but cramming is not effective! you’re more likely to forget information and also spaced studying (studying periodically) is actually shown to help you retain information better 

honestly I just really cannot stress enough the importance of understanding the consequences and implications of historical events. this is what the exam is testing, not just your ability to memorize dates. so make sure that, as you’re studying, that you know why an event was important and not just when it happened.

I know a lot of that sounded like just general studying advice, but trust me! It’s the little things that make a big difference. 

But on to the next thing: the dreaded DBQ. Now if you’re like me, you likely feel pretty good about the multiple choice and are just worried about how the DBQ will go down. Because duh, you’re expected to write an essay with supporting evidence about a currently unknown topic, that’s really intimidating. So here’s some advice on how to write a hella DBQ.

ii. Writing the Essay

before you even look at the documents, read the prompt and start listing everything you know about the prescribed time period, both pertaining to the focus of the prompt and general info. I find this to be immensely helpful and stops me from using the documents as a crutch for the essay. Not only can this help you organize your essay, but it gives you a wealth of things to use as outside evidence and even some things that may help you do extended analysis! 

writing your intro: personally, I try to pick one part of the prompt and just sort of expand on it. For example, if the prompt asks how (country) changed socially, politically, economically following (event) during (time period), start your context by taking about what the country is like historically, tapering down so that by the time you reach the end of your intro, your context provides an easy segue into your thesis. 

speaking of, don’t half-ass your intro! your intro alone is how you can secure 2 out of 7 points on this essay. It’s important and is the building block for your entire essay!

try your best to use all of the documents! while some documents may not seem pertinent, college board will not give you redundant docs. It’s best to use as many docs as you can because if one of them isn’t used correctly, there are others that you can fall back on for points. It’s like essay insurance. 

start off with your point before introducing the document. this also goes into the point of not using the docs as a crutch. If you start by stating the point and then using the doc as support, I find that this helps me find a smoother transition into both extended analysis and outside evidence. 

also just a general writing preference: something I like to start my body paragraphs with my best paragraph first, ending with my second best, and then putting my worst in between the two. I’ll change this depending on the essay though, you just have to decide what will flow the best. 

your conclusion: there’s not a lot of advice to be said, as your conclusion is just a rewording of your thesis. However, I will pass down a little writing advice that my Euro teacher told me. Your essay is like a cul-de-sac in the way where you start and end with your thesis. But keeping that in mind, when you restate your thesis in the conclusion, list your last paragraph first and then end with your first (this also goes with what I said in the previous bullet).

Overall, your DBQ is really only as good as your understanding of the content. Like yeah you can technically BS this essay, but the best way to feel confident in your writing is really knowing the actual content. As I said before, the exam is not testing your ability to memorize dates, it’s testing your ability to put things into a larger historical picture.

iii. Before the Exam 

The AP Euro exam is an afternoon exam so you have your entire morning, use it! I don’t recommend studying the day of the exam. By this point you know everything that you are going to know. But here are some things that I did just to calm my nerves and to go into the exam with low stress.

Pot some plants. You can take this both literally and metaphorically. I did actually pot plants the morning of my exam because it’s a calm activity that keeps my mind busy and quiet. You can try some mindful meditation or even doing some spring cleaning. Really just anything that will keep you from psyching yourself out.

AP Euro Breakfast w/ Tom Richey. Now I know I said not to study the day of the exam, but I will make an exception for this. I am a huge fan of livestreams and podcasts for the simple reason that they keep my thoughts from becoming scattered. This livestream had a similar effect for me as well as it helped me to just kind of recall some events I may have forgotten without the stress of last minute cramming. It’s super chill and something I really recommend. 

Drink water. You are about to test for a whopping 3 1/2 hours, it’s important that you are taking care of your mind. It’s simple but drinking water always helps me feel refreshed and clean. 

Breathe. You got this. You have spent the last nine months crawling through the trenches of AP Euro and this is where you can finally show off all your hard work. No matter what happens, or how you feel after the exam, you’ve done a really challenging thing and saw it through until the end. You just have to believe in yourself and trust in your abilities. 

I hope that at least a few things on this list have helped you or lessened your stress about the upcoming exam. I wish all you luck and here’s one last pro tip: go eat some waffles after the exam, they make everything better.

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