Some other people are claiming the White House is also at half mast now but I haven’t been able to find anything about it? Trying to decide whether I should go to sleep or not
you should go to sleep.
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everyone is a little on edge already, so it seems safe to assume that everyone in the white house will have been directed not to touch the flag until an official announcement goes out. Basically, there's no way the flag is already at half mast, unless someone is feeling really cheeky.
anyone who tells you the flag is at half mast but who doesn't personally live in DC is going off twitter. it's 1am in DC and the only way to know for sure is the livestream, which is pitch black, because it's 1am. Lots of people have been confusing the White House with the Capitol, myself included, and spreading that the WH flag is at half mast already.
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my take on the agnes/gertrude/elias situationship is that gertrude seems like the most normal one to outsiders (she's less prone to arson/creepy mind reading at inopportune moments), but she is still the archivist and therefore kind of eldritch. everyone in the institute has just sort of accepted that yes, the archivist does sleep with her eyes open/is muttering incantations, and it's the least weird thing she's done this week
ok the funny thing is, technically, if by "most normal" we're going off of who is the most human, Gertrude is the normal one. but I don't believe for a second that that's how she's perceived among the rest of the archive staff lmao. like...all her assistants wind up dead, she actively works to make sure her filing system is the least effective one possible, she takes random mysterious vacations and comes back looking like she's just gone ten rounds with a tornado...I absolutely think that Gertrude has the reputation of being the eccentric on staff. I've prepared this diagram to illustrate my point:
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Hanif Abdurraqib, it’s not like nikola tesla knew all of those people were going to die | Anne Carson, H of H Playbook | Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain | Franz Wright, Heaven | Toby Whithouse, shooting script for Being Human S1E1 | Franz Wright, Heaven | Erin Slaughter, I Hope My Salt Lamp is a Weeping Deity | Richard Siken, Straw House, Straw Dog & My Country: The New Age, Episode 16
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