#why. why would i waste 4+ years of my life and potentially hundres of thousands of dollars and make myself miserably

[swagging-back-to]

also the people who keep telling me to go to collge are miserably obnoxious. according to my GED tests im already college level in every single subject. in reading and science i had the highest score possible. everything else was one point below the maximum score. going to college is a waste of my time, literally.

[maaruin]

The Institutional Problems of the Jedi Order

Preface

I think it is time to finally write this post. These ideas have been going through my head for some time after reading some Jedi discourse. But I should preface this with: even though the Jedi made mistakes, this does not mean Palpatine’s genocide of them was justified. It only means that he saw certain flaws in the Order that he could exploit. I suspect that without these flaws, he probably still would have managed to take over and persecute the Jedi, but much more of the Order would have survived.

For this post, I am mostly using the prequel movies with a bit of lore added from the old Expanded Universe. I’m not using The Clone Wars, because its depiction of Anakin’s fall to the dark side is different from the movies. And I’m not using the new Disney Canon, because I don’t know what has been retconned so far and what hasn’t.

Depending on how we count, I think there were either two or four major flaws. I’ll number them as four, but the first three could be grouped together.

1. The Jedi Order is a religion but isn’t organized like one

The Jedi are a religion. They are a group that believes certain things about the universe and practices a way of life that fits with these beliefs. But they are also entirely organized as “Jedi Knights” who are “guardians of peace and justice in the [old] republic”. This is… odd. The entire religion is basically made up of full-time professionals. Or rather, monastics.

If you want to study the Force and use it, you have to become a monk, basically. And more than that, to be accepted you need to already have a special talent in using the Force. Actually, you can’t even do that, they only take toddlers, so your parents have to decide if you should join this religion and become a monk. (Or maybe the Jedi Order just takes all Force sensitive children no matter what the parents think, it’s not entirely clear.)

A normal religion isn’t organized like that. Normally most members of a religion are normal people with normal jobs with varying levels of devotion. They participate in the practices of the religion in a way that fits into their daily life. Then there are religious professionals like priests who work to make it possible for the normal followers to practice this religion. And then, in some religions, there are monastics who dedicate their life to practicing the religion, generally apart from the normal believers. The Jedi only have the last group.

That alone would make them much easier to target and wipe out. But it is even more like that. The entire Jedi Order is integrated into the institutional framework of the Republic. All of the higher ranked Jedi (we will talk about the lower ranked later) basically work as special police and special diplomats for the Republic. “and” not “or”, all of them must fulfill both roles. And, when the Clone Wars start, they all become officers in the Republic military.

Now, in principle I don’t think religious institutions working closely with the state and fulfilling important roles for it is necessarily a problem. But if this is the only way this religion can be practiced, the practice of this religion will become poor in variety and closed off to most people who would be interested in participating.

2. Slavery in the Galaxy

There is slavery in the Galaxy Far Far Away. It is illegal in the Galactic Republic, but it is widely practiced in the planets of the Outer Rim, which might or might not be members of the Republic. The Jedi know that slavery is bad. What should they do?

Well, as much as a like the image of a hundred Jedi waltzing into the Hutt Cartel and killing/arresting them all, that probably wouldn’t be the best idea and cause much more chaos and harm than it solves, at least in the short run. But there are alternatives besides doing that and mostly ignoring it. For a start, here are two:

Establish underground railroads to smuggle slaves to freedom or assist on already established ones. Jedi mind-reading and precognition abilities will be very helpful in such endeavors.

Assist in organizing and fighting in slave revolts. One Jedi can turn the tide on the battlefield and if they are respected diplomats, the can help the slaves in finding supporters.

But this isn’t what the Jedi do because they are preoccupied with their role in the Republic. Qui-Gon says to Anakin that he didn’t come to Tatooine to free slaves. Which is true, he was sent to assist the government of Naboo against the Trade Federation, not the slaves on Tatooine against the Hutts. And why was he sent to Naboo and not Tatooine? Because Chancellor Valorum decided that resisting the Trade Federation was in the interest of the Republic, but freeing slaves wasn’t.

As mentioned in part 1 the number of members of the Jedi religion is smaller than it should be and integrated into the Republic in a way that leaves little room for it to act independently.

3. The Clone Army

Suddenly, an army for the Republic conveniently appears in time when the Republic is about to go to war after centuries of peace. This army is made up of, for all intents and purposes, slaves. Slaves that have been bred to be especially obedient. The Republic is expecting the Jedi to serve as officers in this army. What should the Jedi do?

Serve as officers, because the clones would suffer more without them?

Refuse to serve because that would mean supporting the introduction of slavery into the Republic?

Throw their political weight around and demand the clone troopers be freed and given Republic citizenship and in addition demand an end of the clone production in return for serving in the war?

Serve on both sides of the clone wars because the Republic obviously doesn’t have the moral high ground anymore and if their service in the Republic army leads to less suffering, their service in the Separatist army will do so as well?

There are probably more options. The Jedi decided to pick the one that reduced the suffering of the clones in the short term, but by doing that squandered the opportunity to take a stance against the creation of the clone army. And we don’t even see meaningful discussion within the order about this choice. This is, I suspect, because the Jedi are so used to their role as enforcers in the Galactic Republic that the alternatives weren’t really on the table.

(Palpatine’s plan was counting on the Jedi to behave this way when he planned Order 66.)

4. Dealing with emotions (the problem with Anakin)

While the Jedi Order may not demand it’s members to be emotionless, it does demand that they keep their emotions under very strict control. Nonetheless, almost all the Jedi we see do seem to be emotionally well adjusted. Obi-Wan, Yoda, Qui-Gon, Mace Windu, all of them seem to have little trouble with this demand.

Anakin, on the other hand, has a lot of trouble with it. He often has emotional outbursts through Episode II and III, then shortly afterwards walks back and apologizes. Curiously, this isn’t the case in Episode I. There he is actually quite good in dealing with his emotions. In other words, his time in the Jedi Order made his ability to handle his own emotions worse. Much worse, actually.

I think the reason for this is that whenever he feels something, other Jedi tell him that this is not right. It starts with Yoda in Episode I. “Afraid are you? [��] Fear is the path to the dark side... fear leads to anger... anger leads to hate.. hate leads to suffering.” Criticisms like this no doubt continued all the way through his training until, by the time of Episode II, every time he feels an emotion he is angry at himself for feeling that emotion, which leads to more emotional instability, not less.

But why is this a problem Anakin has and not for the other Jedi we see. Maybe it is because he started his training later than is normal for a Jedi. But I suspect it is something slightly different: The Jedi who go through their training either find a way to handle their emotions in a way the order approves of, or they are sorted out. In the Expanded Universe there is a so called Jedi Service Corps where Jedi who fail their training go to work as farmers, explorers, educators or medical assistants. These jobs are, however, seen as lesser and going there is considered a failure. This is unfortunate, I think the Jedi could do much more good in the galaxy if the best of them were able to work in different fields instead of all being stuck with warrior-diplomat. Nonetheless, the Service Corps actually mitigates one of the flaws the Order has to some extend, if it works like I suspect. If the Jedi don’t have a way of dealing with emotions that works for everyone, the next best thing is to only pick the ones that can handle it and put the rest somewhere where they are useful and can’t do damage. Certainly not ideal, but an understandable adjustment.

But anyways, Anakin wasn’t sorted out. It is never confirmed in the movies, but I would suspect they made an exception for him. Yoda already made an exception for him when they decided to train him at all. And because he was the chosen one, I think they thought that his potential would be wasted if he only got to be in the Service Corps. If we ignore the Service Corps and only go off the movies, my criticism still stands: Yoda recognized that Anakin might not handle Jedi training well and he should have stuck to his guns and refuse Anakin to be trained within the Jedi Order.

Why are the Jedi like this?

Personally, I like to explain these flaws of the Jedi Order historically. Now, the EU doesn’t really fit with the theory I have. Because in games like KotOR and SWtOR the Order seems very similar to the Order in the Prequels. On the other hand, other sources say that this structure of the Jedi Order is a product of the Ruusan Reformation which happened after the end of the last Sith War a thousand years before Episode I.

To defeat the Sith at the end of that war, all Jedi were brought together as one army, no matter what they had done before. They didn’t really defeat the Sith (the Sith were deceived by Darth Bane to destroy themselves), but they thought they did. They thought they almost single-handedly saved the Republic from destruction.

Because of this, they rebuilt the Jedi Order in a way that was explicitly integrated into the institutions of the Republic. They built it in a way that made the fighting Jedi the core of the Order, other forms of being a Jedi were downgraded to the Service Corps. Because many Jedi had fallen to the dark side in that war, they taught a very strict form of emotional control and only trained force-sensitives from birth. And because they were so linked to their role as enforcers for the Republic, the neglected many other things Jedi should do, like helping slaves free themselves.

A better Jedi Order

No matter if this is how it happened, I do think the Jedi Order could be different (better). Here is how I would change it:

A Jedi Laity: Every living being is connected to the Force, so let them participate in practices that serve this connection like Jedi meditation. They may never be able to move things with their mind, but that’s not the point.

Jedi who serve the people should live among them: Jedi priests, Jedi healers, and yes, even Jedi knights should not form their own community but instead be in the same community as the Jedi laity.

Monasteries for the monks: Jedi who fully want to focus on their connection with the Force could still live in monastic communities.

Don’t completely integrate into the state: Working with the Galactic Republic could still be a thing, but the Republic should never depend on the Jedi and only a minority of Jedi should serve the Republic directly.

Help people everywhere: Because they are not completely bound to the Republic, many Jedi can decide how they will serve the people in the galaxy. Some might decide to help the slaves in the Outer Rim.

A Variety of Emotion: Not every Jedi will be as capable of controlling their emotions as the others. If there is a large variety of ways to be a Jedi, I suspect that most of them could still find their place to fit into the Order.

Allow adults to join: With adults it is much easier to determine if they would make a good Jedi and what way of being a Jedi would suit them. If there is a Jedi laity, they can be trained as children to some degree before they decide if they want to join.

Would this Jedi Order have fallen to Palpatine’s manipulation? I don’t know. But I think it would have been harder for him. If most Jedi didn’t serve in the Republic military and weren’t in a small number of Jedi temples, Order 66 would have claimed much less of the Order. (Probably 10%-20% instead of >90%.) Jedi would find it much more easy to hide in the population and the laity could help carry on the Jedi traditions in secret. Anakin might have been more emotionally well adjusted and not fall for Palpatine’s manipulations. (On the other hand, in a more open Jedi Order like this, there might be more people who could be turned, so who knows.)

Well, this is my contribution the Jedi discourse. The Jedi aren’t evil, and they certainly didn’t deserve genocide because of this. But as the Prequels depict them, they have certain tragic flaws in the way they are organized that Palpatine could exploit.

(Maybe I’ll make a shorter Part 2 about how Luke deals with this.)

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Sparks Fly, Chapter 13

Title: Sparks Fly

Rating: NC-17

Synopsis: Everybody knows sparks fly whenever Barry Allen and Iris West are together. Their mutual animosity is legendary. But when Iris returns to Central City to investigate recent sightings of a mysterious red streak, she discovers a hero she just can’t resist…and Barry struggles to hide the unrequited feelings he can’t deny.

Chapters: 13/?

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Iris struggled to her feet, unable to fully comprehend the sight of her father before her. Wait…her father? Was it really? It looked like him, but there was something ever so slightly off. It looked like him, and it sounded like him. But it didn’t feel like him. “Dad?” she ventured again, more cautiously. Her eyes narrowing, she took a step back, her voice more confident as she declared, “You’re not my father.”

He shook his head. “No.”

“Who are you?”

He smiled, but there was no real emotion behind it. “That’s not easy to explain.” He stood, but when she tensed, he didn’t approach. “I am the speed force, the source of Barry Allen’s powers. The source of all speedster’s powers. In my natural state, I have no real form that you could perceive. I took this face because I thought it might be easier for you to accept what I have to tell you if it came from someone you trust.”

She crossed her arms over her chest. “Oh, yeah? Well, you’re wrong. I don’t know who – what – you are, but you…he was my father! How dare you?”

Joe disappeared, and she heard Barry’s voice behind her. “I didn’t mean to upset you. Is this face better?”

Iris spun around so fast, she staggered to the side. Her breath caught in her throat. The person in front of her looked exactly like him, but there was no warmth in his eyes. She didn’t even realize how accustomed she was to seeing it – even during those years that she and Barry swore they hated each other – until it was gone. She felt a sharp pain in her heart, like she was being stabbed in the chest, and she pressed her hand against the invisible wound. “Why are you doing this?” she whispered.

The speed force personification in the form of Barry looked sad. “You have to understand. I chose Barry Allen. I gave him my power. And, in return, he creates me.”

“That doesn’t make any sense,” she pointed out with a frown.

She didn’t know if the speed force could be perturbed, but it certainly didn’t seem to be made so by the reminder of its own illogic.

“I know. Eobard brought you here because he hates Barry, and he wants to destroy the Flash. He knows the best way to do that is to kill you.”

“Why me?” she asked with a whisper. “I mean, I know that Barry and I are friends, but we’re barely even that. Or, at least, we haven’t been friends for very long. Is the Man in Yellow – Eobard, I assume – is he really from the future?” The speed force nodded, and Iris felt herself tear up at the confirmation of her greatest fears. “Then why me? Why is he trying to hurt me? I don’t have any powers. I could even hurt him! Why is he doing all this? Why did he kill my father? I’m a nobody!”

The speed force seemed to sigh. “Oh, Iris. You are the most important person in the world to the Flash. Eobard has never been able to defeat the Flash, but if he kills you, it would destroy him.”

Iris shook her head firmly. “No. That’s a lie. I already told you. Okay, so maybe we’re friends now, but we hated each other! For years! I’m not that important to Barry. Maybe things could have been different, if – well, that doesn’t matter. He may care about me, but he lived without me for years. He could go on now.”

The personification of Barry tilted his head and threw her a considering look. “Could he?” he mused. Heavy mist poured through the windows and doors, obscuring the walls around her until they disappeared completely from view. Alarmed, Iris gasped, feeling the urge to run, but she was surrounded. There was no place to go.

Then, in the mist around her, images formed. Her and Barry, repeated a hundred times. A thousand. Their voices swept around her, like water lapping over rocks, impossible to distinguish one from the next. But she found that as she focused on each couple, their voices became a bit more distinct, and she could make out their words.

“Iris. My Iris.”

“I love and trust you, Barry Allen, the Flash. And I always will.”

“- cutest nerd I know.”

“I Barry, take you Iris…”

“What is this?” she whispered, spinning around.

“These are other versions of you. You and Barry. In other worlds, other times. The number of possible realities is infinite, but the two of you are destined to fall in love in every one of them.”

“No,” she whispered, as the visions multiplied around her, their voices so loud they drowned out her thoughts.

“As long as I remember Iris, I’ll be all right.”

“-realize you’re wearing slippers?”

“You don’t drink coffee? Everyone in Central City drinks –”

“-twins!”

“Can’t a viable single lady ask an attractive young man out for lunch?”

“I loved you before I even knew what the word love meant.”

“You’re everything to me, and you always have been, and the sound of your voice will always bring me home.”

“No,” she tried again, but the speed force didn’t seem to hear her. She felt tears coursing down her cheeks, but as much as she wanted to close her eyes, deny the sight before her, she couldn’t tear her gaze away.

“Marry me, Iris.”

“Iris, will you marry me?”

“All I wanna do is come runnin’ home to you…”

“-guess you’ll have to make an honest man out of me.”

“Marry me…”

“Iris, will you marry…”

“Marry…”

“Marr-”

“Stop it!” Iris yelled, pressing her hands against her ears to block out the rippling cascade of proposals that surrounded her. A thousand Barry Allens. A thousand Iris Wests. More. The force of their love was too much to withstand, washing over her. Crushing her under its weight. It was too much pressure. Too much expectation. She and Barry had barely had time to come to terms with the mistakes in their past; how was she supposed to deal with this? With destiny?

All of the visions of Barry and Iris disappeared. All but one. He looked so young. So carefree. An image of herself appeared before him, looking so innocent and trusting. Had she ever been that young?

“Dance with me?”

“Are you sure? I’m not a great dancer,” he replied, though he didn’t hesitate as he followed after her.

She wrapped her arms around him and started to move to a song that she could hear only in her memories. “Even better.”

There had been so much potential, so much promise in their meeting; it practically radiated off the ghostly figures before her. Iris wanted to pause this moment. Stop what she knew would happen next. Beg the younger version of herself to embrace this moment – to be stronger than the fear and doubt that would soon overwhelm her. Freeze time before the pain, the loss, the misunderstandings. Before the years of lost time and wasted opportunities. “Stop it, please,” she begged in a tortured whisper. “I-I don’t want to see this.”

“That was the moment, you know.” The voice, so familiar and yet somehow so alien, tore at her heart. She knew she would regret it, but she looked into the face that was so much like that of the man who had been a part of her heart for most of her life. Even before she realized it. Equal parts longing for him to continue and dreading to hear the words, she waited. He – it, she reminded herself – didn’t disappoint. “The moment he knew he wanted to marry you one day.” He paused and then explained in a soft voice, “You and Barry are destined for each other. You always have been.”

Squeezing her eyes shut, Iris stumbled back a few feet. “No. Stop it. Stop it! Why are you doing this to me? I didn’t ask for this! I didn’t ask to be part of any destiny, and I don’t want it!”

He laughed, not unkindly, and when she opened her eyes, there seemed to be genuine affection in his eyes. He looked so much like the man she knew that, for a second, she could almost believe it was true. “Oh, Iris. You don’t understand. You think destiny means that you don’t have a choice, but that isn’t it at all. Loving Barry is your destiny because it is your choice. You choose each other. Time and time again.”

Figures appeared in the mist around her again, but it wasn’t another memory. This was a different Iris, a different Barry. But when they looked at each other, the love in their eyes made her ache.

“Are you ready to be Iris West-Allen?” the Barry in front of her asked softly. “I’ve always been Iris West-Allen. I’ve always been yours.”

Entranced by the vision before her, she stepped forward. Part of her hated the speed force for showing her this happier reflection of herself, but part of her yearned to see the truth of this love that could have been theirs. If only. But even as she moved, the vision melted away.

She turned to the figure beside her and almost choked at the sudden thickness in her throat, the burning sensation in her mouth, as she realized she hated the speed force in that moment. More than she could remember hating anyone, save possibly the Man in Yellow. How dare he – IT! – take on this form in front of her! How dare it wear the face of the man she was apparently born to love as it showed her the happiness that existed in every world but her own.

“How dare you? Don’t you wear his face!” she yelled, charging towards him. It. She raised her hands, wanting to strike, wanting to cause the figure before her the pain it had just bestowed upon her. “You don’t get to wear his face!” She didn’t know if she even could cause the speed force pain, but it didn’t matter. It disappeared again before she could make contact.

“I’m not trying to hurt you,” it spoke softly behind her, once again bearing her father’s voice.

Just as quickly as it had overtaken her, Iris’s rage drained away, leaving her feeling…numb. She couldn’t summon her earlier denial – and certainly not her defiance. When she turned to the speed force, it was with a sense of defeat. “What do you want from me? Why are you even showing me all this?”

As she suspected, it had taken the form of her father, and a part of her wished she could curl up in his arms and pretend to herself that he could take her pain away as easily as he had when she was a little girl and everything in the world could be fixed with a kiss pressed gently atop a Band-Aid. “I’m showing you all this because you need to understand. You need to know what you are to Barry. What you always have been. Every person connected to the speed force has a lightning rod. You’re Barry’s lightning rod.”

“I don’t – lightning rod? I don’t understand. What does that even mean?”

“It means that I’m – that the speed force – is not just something that gives speedsters their powers. I am a part of them, and they are a part of me. Just like I created the Flash, and the Flash creates me in return. But that power is more than someone without that connection can control.”

Iris felt a sinking sensation in her stomach. She had a feeling she knew what the speed force was trying to tell her, but she didn’t want to believe it. “Are you saying I’m in danger here? That if I don’t find a way back home, I’ll – I’ll die?”

“I would never hurt you. Not intentionally. But you were never meant to enter the speed force for very long. You are the one who brings Barry back. Not the other way around.”

The mist around her reformed into the vague shadow of a person, one hand stretched out in supplication. A faint echo of her own voice carried to her. “Barry. Barry come home to me.” The mist swirled, folding over and around the figure, and it dissipated into nothingness.

An expression of genuine sorrow crossed her father’s face as the speed force explained, “Iris, what I’m trying to tell you is that, if you stay here for very long, you may die. But without a lightning rod on the other side, I don’t know how to send you back where you belong.

[igorsamarskystuff]

Secret pages of the Chernobyl tragedy

Author: Igor Samarsky

( iusamarsky@yandex.ru )

The secret pages of the Chernobyl tragedy.

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I think it would be of interest to everyone.

Why am I doing this?

Because I worked as an engineer in Unit 4, which exploded. A little later, after the explosion, as Controller. I dealt with the aftermath of that disaster among the many engineers who were involved in it.

My role was to work with the installation crews directly at Chernobyl Unit 4.

I write about it, because all information is classified by Ukrainian authorities. Now I don't care about Ukrainian authorities. I am a citizen of Russia. This work in Chernobyl gave me cancer. I'm struggling with it. It's hard.

I start writing because I believe that all people should know the truth about how the consequences of this nuclear disaster were dealt with.

Seeing how the Japanese carefully concealed and covered up their Fukushima disaster, I feel it is my duty to reveal the secrets of the Chernobyl "cleanup" project.

At the time, it was forbidden to take pictures at work near the destroyed Unit 4. But every worker secretly did it, including me. Here you will find first hand information which was not and will not be written by mass media.   If you would like to see the pictures I took myself - send me your email address and I will send you the pictures.

 In any case, I worked there on a contract basis. At that time there were not enough people in Ukraine to go to work in this nuclear zone. But it was a time of huge unemployment in Ukraine. The time of President Kravchuk, Yushchenko, and then Yanukovich. People were forced to look for work even in this radiation zone. Including myself.

People with higher education and knowledge of foreign languages (for engineers) were hired to work in this zone, except for simple janitors (potential suicide bombers).

I can speak a little English. Got a contract to work with seven installers from Belgium to install and mount a very large Liebherr tower crane on unit #4 to remove the exhaust pipe on that unit that survived the explosion.

The engineers and installers had to live in a dormitory on the grounds of Chernobyl itself, near unit 4 (18 km). Every day a bus on duty transported people to work. Each worker and engineer received an individual accumulated radiation dosimeter. There was a digital dosimeter in the dormitory, which showed a norm of radiation background of 30 μR per hour.

When the norm was exceeded, all personnel had to evacuate from the area of reactor No. 4, and we had to sit in the dormitory, closing all windows and doors until the radiation background dropped below 35 microroentgen per hour. These were safety measures.

There was also free three meals a day. And two bottles of red wine a week, free, to remove radionuclides from your blood.

You could move around, but you were not allowed to take pictures. Of course, everyone took pictures with caution. The police patrolled the area in cars, and they mercilessly fined trespassers if they found them.

The problem was that the old sarcophagus, consisting of a concrete box, was constantly collapsing due to radiation, wind, rain and frost. There came a critical moment when the roof and walls turned into a sieve and did not protect the environment and the area from the radiation of the destroyed reactor. The EU decided to cover the old sarcophagus with a new roof so that the emissions through the sieve of the old sarcophagus would not spread to Europe.

This would have required dismantling the old exhaust pipe, which weighed 1600 tons. There were no helicopters of such power around the world to snag that pipe and remove it.

The EU found a Liebherr and Demag crane capable of removing this pipe.

It was decided to transport one crane from Algeria in a disassembled form to Chernobyl. There, right on the site of Unit 4, it was assembled and the pipe was dismantled. After dismantling the pipe, the kamikaze crane had to be dismantled and buried in the ground.

The project looked good on paper, but at a huge cost.

The EU feared that radiation would spread downwind to Europe.

   When the explosion itself occurred, the radioactive cloud rushed into Belarus and Europe. Part of it reached northwest Ukraine. Including Cherkassy, where I lived at the time.

It looked good on paper. The project originally cost more than $700 million. The EU approved the project and started financing it.

It wasn't interested in Ukraine's opinion, because Ukraine itself was in a quandary. A foreign holding company was set up to deal with the consequences. And from that moment the circus began. The point was that the pipe had to be disconnected from the base of the concrete roof. We had to unscrew the bolts at the joint between the pipe and the roof. There were 64 rusty bolts, 42 mm in diameter. The radiation on the roof was 1,200 to 1,500 X-rays per hour. Exposure to such a dose would be fatal, even for a few minutes for a person. What to do?

The European Union stalled.

 A catastrophe has struck. Ukraine stands with its hand outstretched like a beggar - help eliminate the consequences.

It is important for Europe that the nuclear emissions from the destroyed reactor do not flood Europe through the atmosphere. The EU has already given the first money. As a loan. But how was it used? It was a mockery.

They quickly issued an international tender to swallow that their own money, but shifted the debt to Ukraine. Hundreds of companies around the world wanted their piece of the Chernobyl pie.

The original plan was that the corrupt Ukrainian government system would not steal the money and that EU companies would have to clean up the consequences, but with Ukraine involved. Ukrainians were to do the black (deadly) work.

The tender was won by an unknown French company Navarka, consisting of three people !!!

Let's call it #1. In turn, this company hired two more French companies to develop the project of liquidation and hire the executors. Let's call it #2.

Four more companies were found - Americans, Belgians, Italians and Germans.

Let's call them Number Three.

But Number 3 didn't want to die under the influence of radioactive emissions.

Number 3 hired 12 companies from Ukraine (suicide bombers) to do the dirty work.

Let's call them Number 4.

A total of 45 foreign companies were involved in the cleanup.

I ended up in one of the Ukrainian companies.

The EU was planning to build a new semi-circular sarcophagus on the site in front of the destroyed reactor.

This sarcophagus was to be moved into the old sarcophagus. It was to cover it. The move was to be done on rails.

But this was prevented by an old exhaust pipe on top of the ruined old sarcophagus. That's why the Liebherr crane and Demag were brought to Chernobyl.

My job was to supervise the Belgian assembly team that was to assemble the crane. After it was put into service and performed its "kamikaze" function, dismantle the crane and bury it in the ground.

In fact, these seven installers from Belgium were also, to some extent, suicide bombers. I asked how much they were paid for this dangerous job. But none of them answered.

In addition, the project involved clearing the area on the other side of Block 4, installing and mounting a new arched sarcophagus. The Ukrainians of Unit 4 were to carry out this cleanup in the face of wild radiation. The waste was to be buried.

The only question was, where and how? They asked the European Union for more money. They designed a railroad station to load the radioactive waste. They designed a cemetery for the waste with railroad access roads. That's another $620 million. The Americans in Group 3 were heavily involved in this project. We'll discuss why. Again, everything is fine on paper. But the paper project needs to be put into action...

I'm old now.  I have cancer and it's hard for me. I will write because this topic is still relevant.

The half-life of cesium 137 is 30 years. Amercium 241 - 433 years (alpha radiation is lethal to all life). All of this is present in Chernobyl.

I know - all information about Chernobyl has been hidden from the public. But now I must reveal the secret sides of this tragedy

     I'll tell you a funny story that happened to me.

I was standing next to a Liebherr crane installed by the Belgians. The crane was in the first stage of installation.

As I was walking along the reactor wall 1 meter away, a piece of tar from the roof of the Unit 4 reactor fell down next to me. It was carried away by the wind.

I thought I was not an athlete. It turned out to be the opposite. I started from there, like a sprinter at the Olympics. I ran 100 meters and then I came to my senses. I did it in seconds.

The fact is that all the materials on the roof were thousands of times more contaminated by radiation than on the ground near the reactor. When I was out of breath, I called a decontamination team.

A team in spacesuits arrived. It took them a long time to isolate this piece of tar and the ground next to it. Until the radiation background in the area returned to normal. Because of this incident, crane installation work was suspended for a week.

I thought - how many pieces of shrapnel like this fall off the roof unnoticed every day?

The dosimetric crews, of course, went around Block 4 every day, in the mornings. A lot of contaminated nastiness could fall from the roof before evening, and no one saw or followed it. The accumulation dosimeters in each worker's pocket did not signal danger. They were primitive accumulation dosimeters, that's all.

They read body contamination once a week and at dismissal. If a worker "overdosed" on radiation, he was fired and his contract was terminated.

 After the financial reconstruction of the project, the European holding company began to have problems with the rush and rupture of finances in the European Union itself - who would get more.

Confusion and haste led to the fact that the project drawings were incorrectly translated into Ukrainian by a foreign party.

In addition, the drawings themselves were incorrectly copied (mirrored). This led to the collapse of the concrete work. In particular, during the construction of the railway station for the removal of nuclear waste.

The wagons had to come up on the wrong side. Everything was reversed, like in a mirror. Because of these mistakes, there was again a problem with financing.

A $240 million fine was announced.

The head of the French project side (Group 2) could not stand this pressure and shot himself.

But the work had to go on. The European Union was forced to finance the elimination of errors in the project.

The work continued. The site in front of Block 4 had to be prepared for the installation of the second sarcophagus.

They started digging with the help of Ukrainian "suicide bombers" and ... found a graveyard of old military and civilian equipment that was hundreds of thousands of times more contaminated with radiation.

The Ukrainian side kept quiet about it because it wasn't ...

Solvent.

Dozens of trucks, tractor-trailers, earthmoving equipment were buried in the ground in April 1986 during the elimination of the accident in front of the 4th block.

It was a real nightmare.

Where to dispose of this contaminated scrap metal? The planned cemetery was already filled with preliminary waste.

The foreign investors in this project were clutching their heads. The whole project threatened to collapse.

A solution was proposed by the Ukrainians. They proposed to create a landfill directly in front of Block 4.

For the sake of economy and not to interfere with the project. In the version of the cemetery, open to the atmosphere. Something like a temporary nuclear waste repository.

The foreigners agreed - it was not their territory, and the Ukrainians were to die later from radioactive contamination as a result of atmospheric fallout.

This was said and done.

All the scrap metal was quickly raked aside and fenced off with three rows of barbed wire.

That's where the Americans stepped in.

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Translated by Deepl

       They raised the question of expanding the backfilled old burial ground as designed. They insisted on building a new, larger facility - burial ground #2 in Chernobyl. They proceeded from the idea to export the American nuclear waste from the territory of the USA. And to take this waste to Ukraine. The European Union agreed with the arguments of Americans, because they are interested in the management of their nuclear wastes. The Ukrainian rulers had their jaws dropped. No one took them into account or even considered their wishes.

The European Union, under pressure from the U.S. government, decided to create an additional large nuclear waste repository on the territory of Chernobyl within a radius of 30 km (in the exclusion zone). In fact, it was a project to create a worldwide storage facility for nuclear waste in the Chernobyl zone. The EU agreed because it was in their favor, and American capital participated in the project along with the Europeans. No one paid any attention to the Ukrainian government and its pathetic attempts to oppose it. It was like a punch in the side of a pathetic skinny dog yapping.

Next.

The construction of the new burial ground was financed.

But it was not filled. The temporary repository remained in place in front of Unit 4. A new repository was waiting for nuclear waste from the U.S. and Europe. A landfill site for nuclear waste was created in Ukraine.

But here a new problem arose.

When they started driving 32-meter concrete piles to secure the new carpet for the concrete base of sarcophagus 2.

A new stressful situation arose.

The piles were driven into the ground using a conventional pile-driving machine. On the site of Unit 4, several buildings were constructed for maintenance personnel. Buildings for engineers, surveyors, workers, concrete workers, electricians, etc. These buildings began to collapse due to vibration during pile driving. Cracks appeared in the buildings and the walls began to collapse.

In addition, collapses occurred inside Sarcophagus No. 1 itself. Because of the vibration, the nuclear fuel that was in the boiler, which leaked out of the boiler and moved along with the debris, began to take on a new shape the moment the piles began to be driven.

The fact is that some of this fuel had sublimated into balls (small metal and glass balls that were mixed with the sand that had been dropped from helicopters into the boiler in April 1986).

From the vibration of the piles, these nuclear fuel balls, consisting of cesium 137, polonium, and other fuel residues, began to pile up and form one solid mass. in different places in the sarcophagus - 1.

It's like if you took a funnel of sand, put some lead pellets in it and started tapping the funnel with your finger, creating a vibration. After a while, all the pellets sink into the sand and merge into one lump of lead at the bottom of the funnel.  

 Thus, from the vibration, a nuclear critical mass started to form in different places of the sarcophagus - 1, from which a nuclear chain reaction could start.

In fact, several nuclear bombs began to form simultaneously and spontaneously in different places of the sarcophagus-1.

Thank God, the Ukrainian surveyors working inside the sarcophagus noticed that cesium and polonium were flowing into one mass in several places at once and sounded the alarm.

Immediately thereafter the piling was stopped and EU leaders again clutched their heads, cursing Ukraine and the disaster. What to do?

Several governments were involved in the game.

   The U.S. and the EU have quietly created a global nuclear waste dump on Ukrainian territory. And this dump pollutes the environment. Even now.  The atmosphere is doing its dirty work of spreading radiation. Every day there may be whirlwinds carrying nuclear dust into Europe. It may last a day or two, and then the wind will turn the other way. It is impossible to predict where the next nuclear cloud will go. If the background radiation rises in Europe, the governments of the countries where it happened will cover it up so as not to alarm the public. Because the source of the increased background radiation is supposedly unknown. But there is one - Chernobyl.

That's why the number of cancer cases in Europe has increased. This is exactly what I said earlier - no one in the world, rich or poor, is immune from cancer. The poorly controlled nuclear waste dumps in Ukraine created by the United States and the European Union contribute to this. And no money has been earmarked for upgrading these dumps in Chernobyl because Ukraine has bored both the US and the EU with its pathetic claims.

Ukraine has entered a stage of politically progressive unruly Nazism and chauvinism, and none of the Nazi rulers are going to deal with ecology and Chernobyl.

Hence the problem with the sarcophagus 2 base. The concrete base of sarcophagus 2 was to be a huge concrete carpet three meters thick that was to be laid on a layer of gravel and sand.

It was to be a layered paste of concrete. The carpet was to be supported by concrete piles. But a critical mass of cesium leaks stopped the process. Money and a new project to install the concrete carpet was needed again. A solution was found.

It was financed. Drilling of boreholes and pouring of concrete without vibrations began. The so-called underground piles.

Ukraine watched the process and giggled from the corner.

Finally, the concrete carpet was laid. But here again there was a problem.

Ukraine complained that the rails that will move sarcophagus 2 into sarcophagus 1 will not support the load and weight of sarcophagus 2, because the foreigners miscalculated the steel (rails and rollers). Ukraine presented its calculations. Sarcophagus 2 will not be able to move on these rails. The rails and rollers will collapse under these loads. The European Union agreed and is clutching its head for the fourth time.

The political game called "disaster management" has reached its climax!

And what about the pipe?

The Ukrainians put out a tender to find self-killers who would be able to remove the pipe from the roof in conditions of wild radiation. And they found them. Eighteen volunteers agreed to do the job for big money. The crane was ready and assembled. He was ready to remove the old exhaust pipe.

This suicide crew began working around the clock. They were cutting the pipe, unscrewing the bolts. The radiation on the roof, even through the concrete on which the pipe stood, was 1200 X-rays per hour. After a week, the pipe was cut, all the bolts were unscrewed. The pipe was removed. What happened to the installers after that - I don't know. Most likely, they died for their families and children.

 So what happened next, after the EU first accepted Ukraine's evidence.

The Ukrainian government demanded money for a new rolling system design to collapse the new sarcophagus onto the old one.

The EU agreed.

The first official damage estimate, made in mid-1986, put the damage at between $3 billion and $5 billion. A few years later it was estimated that up to $120 billion would have to be spent by the year 2000. (SECC, 1996). In 1990 the figure was already $358 billion (WISE News, 1990). These are the official figures. But in reality, somewhat more was spent.

But we digress...

So Ukraine got its share of the funding. The famous Ukrainian Welding Institute named after academician Paton was commissioned to develop the project. The old design (rails, rollers) was completely withdrawn. A new project was developed - a smooth granite base, on which the new sarcophagus-2 will slide in the direction of the old sarcophagus 1 and cover it by sliding on granite rollers.

The project was approved and funded.

By this time my contract had expired. Construction of the new smooth granite base had begun. For me, the process of getting out of the contract began. It went on for over a week. I enjoyed it - did nothing. Walking around, being examined by the medical team in the lab. Enjoyed the view of the empty, abandoned city.

The wild animals living in the forest around Chernobyl had mutated. Several generations of animals had mutated - they were completely unafraid of humans. There were almost twice as many of them around Chernobyl as in the regular forest. When I drank vodka with friends on the Pripyat River (the river for cooling the reactors), I even bathed in the river while intoxicated. It is understandable - a man in a state of alcoholic intoxication is not afraid of anything.  My friends encouraged me and they themselves bathed in the Pripyat River. From the bridge near the reactor we threw saiki bread into the Pripyat river. Huge river catfish reacted to these loaves by surfacing like submarines and swallowing the loaves. It was fun to watch. These river catfish were up to 3 meters long. We had fun competing to see who would get closer to a female boar that was eating roots by the trees with her piglets. The piglets were as big and black as the female boar herself. She wasn't paying attention to us. Animals, cats and dogs in the city were getting wild and big. Birds would land on our hands if we had bread crumbs in our hands. Hares the size of dogs. Foxes would brazenly walk up to people and ask for a light meal.

There was such an incident.

By some miracle a huge wolf managed to break through three rows of barbed wire and tried to get to the leftover food in the bins outside the canteen building.

The police organized a military operation against the wolf with guns.

But the wolf turned out to be cunning and very aggressive. He skillfully hid from police shots among the trash bins. It was impossible to kill him from afar.

Several police officers decided to approach the wolf's ambush. But the wolf jumped out from behind the trash cans, and two policemen were wounded by its teeth. In the end, the wolf was shot. This was entertainment for the workers who were watching this military operation.

The wolf was also mutant and completely black in color.

I would like to say one more thing.

Contrary to the bans on visiting this Chernobyl zone, many people live in their abandoned private homes.

Most of them are elderly people who do not care about the banned laws and their health.

They sneak into the zone along forest trails and settle in abandoned houses. If the police catch them, they are deported from the zone.

But they show up and continue to live there.

Finally, seeing this problem, the Ukrainian government allowed a minimum quota for settlement in Chernobyl. It is now possible to get a settlement permit if a person has private property there.

  But these people cannot qualify for health insurance. They have to give it up.

That's how my work at Chernobyl ended. I didn't make much money there. That was the basis of the Ukrainian policy towards Ukrainian citizens.

And now fascist nationalism is rampant, and I'm sure that no one particularly monitors the safety of closed reactors. Ukraine has entered the third stage of poverty. It has entered into a confrontation with Russia.

The European Union and the United States are fed up with claims from Ukraine.

What the future holds for Ukraine, I don't know.

The current situation is in Chernobyl.

The cemetery that remains at the site of the fourth power unit is left in the open air. Ukraine has no money to move this burial site and bury the contaminated scrap metal. The EU thinks it has accomplished its mission (to protect itself from nuclear clouds). No one wants to invest money. In spring, summer and autumn, when the wind blows, all the radioactive dust rises from the burial ground into the atmosphere and begins its victorious march across Ukraine, Europe and Russia. The authorities, of course, fix it. But they never talk about it. The whole catastrophe is gradually forgotten.

Nevertheless, the catastrophe has consequences.

 The same thing is happening now in Japan at Fukushima. Only it's even worse there.

The Japanese are hiding everything and keeping it a secret. Radiation pollution occurs not only through the atmosphere, but also through the ocean. The Japanese are good students of Chernobyl.

 What happened to that notorious Greenpeace? Was he bought with all his guts? Yes, it probably was!

 We are all ordinary people in the world - hostages of power and oligarchs who think only about their personal gain and personal well-being. They absolutely do not care about the problems of ordinary people in the world, and the Chernobyl disaster proves this.

 The way people live now is the answer for everyone. People live in Chernobyl and grow gardens and vegetable gardens. Of course, growing food on contaminated soil is a mistake. I tried to go into such an abandoned house with friends along with a working dosimeter. But even approaching this house, the radiation dosimeter "squealed". We rushed out of that house. But in Chernobyl, radiation levels vary. There are places with high levels, there are places with low levels. But the ground is all contaminated. We walked on the contaminated land with a level of about 40 microroentgen per hour. All the animals (wild and domestic) ate food from this ground. Hares were gnawing on tree bark. Moose ate poisoned mushrooms. The animals did not live long, but they multiplied quickly. With each new generation of offspring, the mutation increased. It's not as fast as it's shown in Hollywood movies, and it's not as scary. But it is still real. And people living in their abandoned and infected homes don't live as long, and neither do animals. They have accepted their fate. I was talking to an old man who lives in his own house (there is a picture of my house). Their philosophy: I live alone. I don't get in anyone's way. I buy my groceries at the store that works for the Chernobyl victims. I grow a garden on this land. I don't disturb my children in Kiev. As long as God gives me life, I will. He was 74 years old at the time. Who buried him after his death, I don't know. The zonal administration had to take the dead outside the zone and give them to relatives. That must have been the case. It's a scary story. That's the life of Chernobyl. All information about modern Chernobyl is still hidden.

[ren-c-leyn]

The Cycle Repeated

Another fusion story, this one’s a bit off the beaten path, but I had fun working on it. It’s made up of these 1,2 prompts by @thependragonwritersguild, this prompt by @inspiring-prompts, this prompt by @sentence-prompts, these 1,2,3,4,5 prompts by @givethispromptatry, this prompt by @oopsprompts, and this prompt by @humdrummoloch.

 It’s a bit of an angstier piece (shocking, I know), that I think is considered low fantasy? I’m not really sure, since this isn’t my usual forte XD There is a (kinda) character death, a fight scene, and a battle that will probably never be resolved.

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 And I knew they were back. That I would need to face them again. If I was here, then so were they. Eternal enemies, fighting, dying, then taking our first breaths again. The settings and eras changed, but we never did. Though, I knew we weren’t the only things that didn’t.

 I don’t think my mortal friend understood when I first explained things to her. She gave me that blank ‘you must be mad’ stare, the same one I had received for centuries. It wasn’t until the death toll and the plots started coming to light that she realized the threat was very real. Thankfully, she was good with this so called technology, seeing as magic had grown even weaker since the last time I had been born, because I couldn’t find my way out of a mall with a map, little alone locate my nemesis. But she found them, and we were now standing beneath the huge building.

 “You’re ok with this?”

 “Well… No. I’m not, but I’ve lived a thousand lives and died a thousand deaths. What’s one more in the grand scheme of things?”

 She looked at me.

 “But... she’s the only one you can count on meeting again, right?”

 I sighed and nodded.

 “Time and time again, but never as friend. Sometimes they win, sometimes I do... I cannot promise either outcome today.” I looked back at her. “I just want you to realize that if this doesn’t work I will die and you will be left to deal with the fall out. Can you do that?”

 “I have to, don’t I? She’ll destroy the world if I don’t.”

 “Not all of it, just certain sections, knowledges, and philosophies.”

 “... Right. I still don’t get that.”

 I smiled bitterly.

 “You have not lived as we have. Now, I’m going in, you can either stay or follow, but I cannot guarantee your survival if you come.”

 “Well I’m not just going to stand out here in the cold like a dork, knowing you’re fighting for people’s lives.”

 “Alright, then stay behind me. I mean it, your life will mean nothing to them.”

 She nodded, but I wasn’t sure if she truly comprehended the thousands of years of cruelty history had beaten into my old enemy. The way dictators and wars had ravaged their mind and twisted them from being my old friend into being the enemy of many.

 I reflected on our dark histories as I ascended the stairs, not trusting the rickety boxes my new friend called elevators. Thinking about it, not much had really changed in all of this time. Corruption, suffering, fights over nothing and everything, people breaking each other over their own pain....

  “I can’t believe this is still my life,” I sighed out.

 “Then... why do you still do this sort of thing?”

 I glanced back at her, confused.

 “Why keep wasting your lives doing something you don’t want to?”

 “My first priority is the protection of civilians.”

 “I’m not a civilian.”

 “Yeah, but if I say ‘mortals’ I sound like a weirdo.”

 She laughed.

 “True... but is that really it? Duty and honor?”

 I looked forward again, checking to see what floor we had reached.

 “If you throw away honor, what do you have left, really?”

 She went quiet, though I wondered sometimes if it was to think about what I was saying or to keep herself from laughing at it.

 I stopped at the floor she had traced the signal too, motioning for her to wait.

 “Okay, I want you to stay back. Please don’t put yourself in danger if you don’t have to.”

 “I can take care of myself.”

 “Against someone who has trained for hundreds of lifetimes in the arts of combat from dozens of cultures?”

 She grinned.

 “Don’t know, sounds like fun to find out though.”

 I sighed.

 “Then we’ll spar when this is over, but for now, please be careful. I need someone who knows what the hell is happening to clean things up if I fail to.”

 “Fine.”

 “Thank you.”

 I wandered into the hall, keeping my guard up as I slid from door to door, peaking my head in to check to make sure my ancient foe was not hiding behind them. Room after room appeared abandoned, save for strange technologies and devices. I sensed magic protecting and powering some of them. It seemed I was not the only one who refused to abandon the arcane arts, though I appeared to be the only one who hated machinery.

 When I reached the end of the hall, there was a flash of purple and I dived for the ground. Magic energy cackled somewhere behind me. It seemed they weren’t going to be pulling any punches today.

 “Sillian!” I shouted.

 A tall, blonde woman stepped out from behind the door, eyes glowing purple with magic.

 “That hasn’t been my name in centuries.”

 I drug myself up onto my feet.

 “I don’t care what name you use these days, people are dying because of you!”

 “Oh, good, I thought all my effort was going to be wasted. So hard to tell if your schemes are actually working in this day and age.”

 “Sillian,” I said, trying to keep my voice level as I called forth the ancient powers to my own body, staring at their new face from behind the hazy glow of yellow, “I know you have the potential to feel something for these people. You don’t need to do this. You don’t need to hurt them. We can educate them, show them the truth.”

 And they laughed. Laughed that horrible laugh they always did when I tried to reason with them.

 “Of course, of course you haven’t learned... mortals, their memories aren’t like ours. Generation after generation... they erase it. Their history, their ancestor’s hard learned lessons. Why do you think they keep trading all they have for some illusion of fairness? For the belief that their kings and queens, elected and otherwise, will care for anything but power over them? To control and manipulate them? Why do you think they believe everything and stand for little more than getting in their own way?” They leaned forward, dropping their voice to that hoarse whisper. “Because they don’t teach their children about the horrible things that happened in the past. They bury it, and expect the next generations not to repeat the horrible mistakes of the past.... But we know better. Or, at least, I know better.”

 “Then teach them! Teach them their histories, teach them the wrongs being committed against them!”

 They shook their head at me, sadness creeping onto their face. I grit my teeth before I found myself shouting at them.

 “Please amaze me. Prove me wrong! Just this once! Prove to me that you aren’t a monster!”

 “No. I will continue to disappoint you. To kill monsters, sometimes you need to be one. I’m sorry.”

 “No you aren’t. If you were then you wouldn’t be doing this at all.”

 “… You’re right. It’s hard to be sorry for trying to fix things when all that’s left are bad memories. But you know, I only have one thing I’m truly sorry for. My one regret was saving your life.”

 And they raised a hand, magic energy collecting in their fingertips. Once I managed to get over the shock of the statement, I quickly raised my own, trying to counter before I got blown away.

 Magic tore through the building in a bright light. I heard glass shatter and the whine of metal bending. There was so much going on, I couldn’t even tell what parts of my body hurt and what parts I just couldn’t feel anymore. Lightening bolts, shrouds of mist, bolts of energy, it all happened so fast that the only thing I could register in my mind clearly was the screams of my new friend.

 And then it was silent. Too much so. I couldn’t see my enemy, but I could couldn’t see a good portion of my gut. Adrenaline again, the only thing keeping my heart beating. I... I had to say good-bye before I left.

 I limped quickly to find my friend, covering my wound. I found her in the stairwell, bruised and ruffled from falling, but otherwise alright. She met my gaze and jumped up from the landing she had been sitting on.

 “You’re back! Wait, I’m confused. How did you survive that?”

“I didn’t,” I replied before removing my hand from over my stomach.

 Her eyes widened.

 “Oh... Oh my god... Okay, we... we need to call you an ambulance.”

 She searched around for her phone as I leaned against the wall, only to find it broken. The tears started to form.

 “No... no, no, no.... Okay, okay, we need... we need to get you out of here.”

 I shook my head.

 “It’s too late. They can’t fix magic wounds in this day and age.”

 “NO! Don’t say that! Don’t give up!”

“Don’t be sad child, everything with a start must eventually come to an end.”

 I sat down, feeling my heart slowing to a crawl as the adrenaline faded away. 

 “It’s just one more death... in the grand scheme of things. I’ll be back... I always come back.”

 “But not for me.”

 “But you’ll... remember... what happened... what I... what I taught... you....”

[bonjourmoncher]

You can contact Hamilton Lindley by: Phone at 254-759-5866 Email at hpl@hamiltonlindley.com And mail at 1020 N. University Parks Drive, Waco, TX 76706

After ten years in Dallas, Hamilton Lindley moved his family of five to the home of the Baylor Bears. Hamilton P Lindley realized the brainwashing of his daughter was complete after she believed that the Baylor Bear mascots hibernate only after “eating all them Longhorns.” If you have the desire to see too many photos of Hamilton Lindley’s family, you can find Hamilton Philip Lindley on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Let’s get straight to the point, shall we?

Busy people can be incredibly difficult to connect with.

You know the drill. You send an email, then you wait. And wait. And wait some more. You get no reply, so you try again. More of the same. Eventually, you give up.

If this sounds familiar, well, you’re not alone. Most men have struggled, at some point in their career, to try to connect with someone who is incredibly busy. Whether it’s a potential employer, a possible mentor, a dream client, or even just to connect with a girl so you can ask her out on a date, contacting a busy person can be very difficult.

Does that mean you give up? Heck no. Often, there is a good reason why busy people are so busy. Namely, it is because they are successful, and they’re successful because they are smart and well-connected and have access to resources or knowledge that might make all the difference in the world to you…if you can just break through.

But if you’re like most men, you’ve struggled with trying to figure out how to go about making that contact. How can you get the person’s attention? What should you say and how do you say it? Where do you even start? Should you follow-up if they ignore you? And new means of communication in the form of social media, Skype, text messaging, and blog commenting has made this issue even more confusing and challenging.

Throughout my career, I’ve tested just about every different approach for contacting busy people. I’ve also spent the past 2+ years reaching out to very busy entrepreneurs and authors to appear as guests on my podcast. I’ve tried techniques that work like a charm and other strategies that are guaranteed to bomb. Below, I include the best of what has worked for me.

Art of Manliness has previously covered how to write an email that will get a response. In this article, however, I want to share more of an overarching approach which can be (and often is) implemented using email, but which is also medium-agnostic. Email is what I’ve used the most and is still an effective vehicle. However, you should also consider other approaches such as face-to-face and social media where appropriate. To contact AoM’s reclusive McKays, you’ll even need to be willing to write a good old-fashioned letter! (Word is if they start getting too much snail mail to handle, they’re going to move to requiring messages by homing pigeon.)

Although it can feel like a daunting task trying to connect with a busy person, the rewards when you succeed can often be game-changing. You just have to be smart about how you make your first move.

Put Yourself in Their Shoes

At the outset, you must understand that busy people get hundreds, if not thousands, of requests for help, aide, or resources every week. Not surprisingly, a large portion of them look and sound exactly the same. “Can you help me?” “Can I pick your brain?” “I’ve got an awesome idea that I know you’re gonna love!”

Don’t kid yourself. You might think your request is incredibly original or immensely valuable to the busy person, but they’ve probably already heard it before (A new app that will make you more productive? NO WAY!) Naturally, they’re going to be a little apprehensive.

Before you even think about reaching out, you need to get your mindset right. Even if you have the best of intentions, and think your request is a relatively minor one, don’t expect an answer. By definition, “busy” people can’t possibly respond to every inquiry. They’re not being rude — they’re just prioritizing. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be as successful as they are.

According to Steve Pavlina, author of Personal Development for Smart People, “If you can accept that busy people must triage in order to be effective and have a life, and you can respect them for setting priorities, you’ll have a much better shot at building a bridge with them.”

Here are 8 tips for contacting a busy person:

1. Try to Connect Before You Ask for Anything

The worst way of contacting a busy person is to ask them for something in your first attempt to connect with them. A much better approach is to reach out and contact the person long before you ever actually ask for anything.

One way to do this is via social media. Look for creative ways to quote, feature, or mention the busy person, by including them in a blog post or article you are writing, and then share it with them afterwards via social media. A single tweet might be all it takes to “grease the wheels” and get the conversation started.

Continue to build the relationship by doing things like sharing their content, promoting them, or simply sending relevant resources their way. To do this, you need to really get to know the busy person and understand what they are working on or could use help with. Be patient and allow the connection to grow organically before you jump in and start asking for favors. Don’t burn the bridge before you build it.

Another frequently overlooked option is to examine your existing network and see if you have any ties back to that person. A friend? Business associate? Anything that can be used to show commonality between you and the other person will help.

“Getting someone else to introduce you is one way to get someone’s attention,” says networking expert Lynne Waymon co-author of Make Your Contacts Count. “Find out who you both have in common and ask ‘Will you introduce me?’”

2. Keep Your Communications Brief

“Just a tip of advice. Never write on both sides of the sheet when you are sending a letter to a busy man.” –Jack London, Letter to Louis Stevens, March 24, 1913

Save your life story for another time. The shorter the message, the more likely you will get a reply. And the busier the person, the more important it is that you not waste their time.

First, always start your correspondence with a relevant subject line that’s clear and to the point. The recipient should be able to quickly tell why they would benefit from opening your message, how they know you, or ideally, both.

“Can you help me?” With what? Your business? Your math homework? There’s about as much value here as in a rubber crutch. You don’t have to be psychic to know that this one is headed straight for the oval file.

“Podcast Appearance to Promote Your New Book” is a much better subject line. By clearly stating what it is you want, and more importantly, how it will benefit the other person, you are much more likely to get your email opened.

Being brief also means excluding anything that isn’t necessary. It’s okay to open with a couple lines of pleasantries about your connection/affinity for the person. “I’m a big fan of what you do and I’ve been reading your magazine for five years now,” or “Seeing your TED talk made me decide to switch my major to biology.” A bit of praise will get your email off on the right start and build rapport. But keep your opening to no more than two sentences.

Keep the main body of your email as succinct as you can as well; aim to make your pitch in five sentences or less. You don’t need to attach your 100-page business plan or a dozen pictures of your prototype before you’ve explained what it is that you actually want. Remember, be respectful of a busy person’s time and wait for the green light before sending follow-up information, if they are open to it.

3. Do Your Research First and Ask Specific Questions

“I do detest being asked general advice, because, in reply, I must do one of two things: (1) Either write two or three books handling the replies or (2) damp the replies by giving only a few short sentences.

What I mean is, any time ask me for particular specific advice, and I shall be only too glad to place myself at your service.

Please remember that I write thousands of letters every year to unknown correspondents. And please remember, (1) that I do not like to write for a living…and that (2) therefore, when I have written all the books that I have written and upon which I work every day, that I am so tired of writing that I’d cut off my fingers and toes in order to avoid writing…

Anyway, please remember that you can call upon me any time for SPECIFIC PARTICULAR advice on any subject.” -Jack London, Letter to Cordie Ingram, April 9, 1913

When you reach out to a busy person, do so with very specific questions in mind. You may only get one shot at this, so you want the questions you ask to offer the most metaphorical bang for your buck; make them questions where you cannot find out the answers anywhere else, and for which you absolutely need the busy person’s unique perspective/connections/input.

So first research the answers to the list of questions you have in mind as rigorously as you can, and see what you can find out from easier-to-access sources. You need to show the busy person you’ve done your homework. Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, says “It’s amazing how many would-be mentees or beneficiaries ask busier people for answers Google could provide in 20 seconds.” In Ferriss’ words, “That puts you on the banned list.”

Not only should you do research before you reach out to a busy person, you should also try to get going on your project/business before you ask them for help. “Don’t ever ask a busy person to ‘pick their brain’ before you begin working on your project or idea,” says AoM’s own Brett McKay. “Instead, wait until it’s really underway, you’re in the thick of it, and you run into a specific problem.” Advice on starting something is typically plentiful and readily available. So save your “Phone-a-Friend” lifeline for when you’ve done all you can on your own and you’ve reached a wall you can’t figure out how to break through.

What specific question you should ask will vary depending on your situation, so it’s easier to explain what types of questions you should not ask. Typical examples of the types of generic questions you should not ask include:

I don’t know how to get started with ______. What would you recommend I do?

Do you think ____ would apply to my situation?

I’m confused about ______ and I’m not sure why I’m not getting it. Do you have any suggestions?

A better approach than these generic questions is to explain 2 or 3 specific options you are considering and ask for specific feedback on this discrete choice.

When you take this approach, you can “make use of your opportunity and ask better questions about specific topics rather than just peppering someone with general inquires,” says McKay. “The time you land with a busy person is valuable, so use it to ask the highest leverage questions you possibly can.”

4. Make Your Pitch Something to Which They Can Say Yes or No

If the question you have for a busy person regards whether or not they want to work with you on something, make your pitch as clear as possible. In other words, don’t ask an open-ended question like, “Would you like to partner with us somehow?” It’s not the busy person’s job to think of ways you two might team up. It’s your responsibility to come up with a specific proposal. A proposal a busy person can answer with a yes or a no.

5. Show Up in Person

Think for a minute about how many sales calls or how much junk mail you receive in a week. The majority of these items are deleted before they are ever opened. The multitude of requests busy people receive often suffer the same fate.

Now consider what you would do if the person making that same plea was standing right in front of you. Not quite so easy to ignore them now, is it?

Waymon says if there is a particular busy person you want to connect with, you should find out what groups or organizations they are part of and see how you can add value to those groups. Perhaps you can join a committee they are on or offer to help with something they’re passionate about.

“Studies show that it often takes 6 contacts with someone before they know who you are and have you placed in their mental Rolodex,” says Waymon. “So committee work and small group activities are good ways to create that continued contact.”

Being part of the same team can get your foot in the door, but you have to be ready when opportunity strikes. “Always have an agenda. Before the meeting think of three or four things you’d like to find out or know more about. Also, be ready to talk about three or four things you’re excited about — personally or professionally,” says Waymon. “Since people want to do business with people they trust, your overall goal is always to teach people to trust you.”

6. Keep Bringing Value

The chances of getting what you want become exponentially better when you offer something of value. A lot of people struggle with how to find something of “value” to offer, but really the options are limitless.

One of the best ways to provide value to a busy person is by helping them to promote their new book, project, business, or event. You can do this in a variety of ways:

Write an online review on Amazon, Yelp, or other review site.

Feature the busy person in an article on your blog or someone else’s blog.

Offer to introduce the busy person to someone relevant. But be sure to ask first.

Interview the person for your podcast, or if you don’t have a podcast, record a simple interview using a free service like FreeConferenceCall.com and upload it to your blog or SoundCloud (also free). Keep in mind that if your audience is very small, the busy person will likely make a cost benefit analysis and decide that the amount of promotion you can offer is less than the value of their limited time.

Create a Click to Tweet link explaining why you love the particular person’s work and share it with all your friends like this.

Even if you don’t have a blog or podcast, you can record a simple video with the webcam built into your laptop and upload it to YouTube, where millions of people will watch it before going back to watching videos of a cat playing the piano.

Bottom line: Find out what it is they need, or who they want to connect with, and make it happen.

7. Assert Yourself

When you make a request, not only is the message itself important, but so is the tone in which you present it. Michelle Lederman, author of The 11 Laws of Likability, talks about approaching the conversation from what she calls the “middle ground.” You should come off as “not passive, not aggressive, but assertive” says Lederman. Think confident, but not cocky. And definitely not meek.

Lederman also recommends going for the “convenient ask.” Make it as easy as possible for them to say yes to the request. For instance, give the busy person specific dates and times to choose from. Offer to meet them at the location of their choosing. Anything you can do to simplify the request can help.

Finally, Lederman recommends creating a sense of “scarcity.” Create a deadline for a blog post or article so that if the busy person wants to be included, they will need to respond by a particular date in order to make it happen. Having a deadline elicits more responses since these types of requests are harder to push off until later (which usually results in the busy person forgetting to come back to the request).

8. Follow Up (Within Reason)

Now, what do you do if you don’t get a reply? Should you follow up, and if so, how? “I think the secret to building meaningful relationships is following up,” says Jeff Goins, author of The Art of Work. But Goins cautions that you have to be careful how quickly or eagerly you follow up. “If you’re too aggressive, it can hurt you. But if you’re too lax, you can miss an opportunity.”

Goins says he will reach out once, then follow up a week later if he doesn’t have a response yet. If he still hasn’t heard back by then, he will “follow up after another week or two with a ‘hey if I don’t hear back from, I won’t bother you again’ email and then move on.” If Goins is really determined, he says he might try a completely different approach. “I may try another way to build trust with the person, like finding a way to meet them in person, but I won’t try the same way that failed before.”

Brett and Kate McKay have a similar suggestion. They say you should follow up once two weeks after sending the original email, and then 6 months later. “Sometimes the busy person will be in a different phase or season of busyness where their circumstances have changed and they’ll be more receptive to the reach out,” says Brett.

If you want to follow up after a week or two, you can use this script:

Hey George, I just wanted to follow up on my prior email once, in case my previous email got lost in your inbox.

If you aren’t interested, I won’t take offense. If you are interested, let me know. I will send one courtesy follow-up after this email in case the timing right now does not work for you.

-John

By indicating in your message that you are just following up as a courtesy and that the busy person need not respond if they truly are not interested, you are respectful of their time while also balancing the possibility that they really didn’t see your email the prior time around.

Start Contacting Busy People

Remember: busy people aren’t selfish and inconsiderate; I’ve actually found the opposite to be true — that some of the busiest people are actually the most giving types of people. But they also want to be efficient with their time. Remember that the time they give to you is time they sacrifice from working on their own businesses or spending time with their families. So contact them in a way that respects this reality and impinges on their schedule as lightly as possible.

While the entire process may sound intimidating and overly complex, you shouldn’t be intimidated. Like any challenge, connecting with busy people is a skill that you can develop over time. And it’s worth the effort.

“Don’t underestimate your value to someone else,” says Lederman. “There are so many things you can bring to the table that you don’t realize. A little bit of legwork goes a long way.”

[murdochmysteriesimagines]

be bloody, or be nothing worth- John Brackenreid

Request: Can John be in love with his friend and he finally confesses to her. And can she be a actress too

A/N: This went through a few rewrites and I can confidently say this is the best version. I hope it was worth the wait. A link has been provided for the soliloquy used in this story.

Hamlet Act 4 Scene 4

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“You look nervous.”

“I am!” You snap back at John who recoils at the aggression. Immediately you feel a pain of guilt for the comment, sometimes this play was becoming too much.

“It’s just a audition y/n, you’ve done and passed hundreds before.” He sighed “This isn’t even your first time auditioning for Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”

You stopped pacing around the back stage when he said this. It was not new information but a simple reminder at times like this was often helpful. He was almost always like this; calm and collected while you were the embodiment of paranoia. You went up and hugged him, the worry inside of you seemed to be crushed out in his embrace.

“You think I can be Ophelia again?”

“You’ll be fine y/n.” One final squeeze and he reluctantly lets go, “This is more of a formality anyway. How many times have you been casted by these people in one of their plays?”

You both knew the answer to the question, John had attended each of your performances that year and only gave encouragement. Your name is called from the audience and you head out onto the stage with a final smile to and from John. Before you walk out to greet the casting directors John quickly asks a final question before you started to walk out onto the stage. “What performance are you doing anyway?”

“I’m doing Hamlet’s final soliloquy, the one were he promises to take revenge on the King.” John nods with a grin; you couldn’t deciside between Hamlet’s final or first grand speech. The loving friend calls out well wishes as you walked onto centre stage and began to act after stating your name and desired role to the familiar faces in the audience. With John watching from the side you felt invincible on the stage.

John quietly watched you from the side stage as you began. The soliloquy was not for your desired character but John knew you could pull it off; he heard fragments as you practiced but this would be the first time he would hear the complete version.

“How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and god-like reason

To fust in us unused.”

“She does make a good point,” John said to himself. It is thoughts and desires beyond survival that makes us human. Everyone has a purpose in their life that acts as a driving motive for all their actions. Narrowly a day would pass that you wouldn’t be found lost in work or practice; the drive for constant improvement. He always respected that about you, even when it unfortunilty cut into the time he desperately wanted to spend by your side.

“Now, whether it be

Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on the event,

A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom

And ever three parts coward, I do not know

Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'

Since I have cause and will and strength and means

To do it.”

It was little moments like this that John admired you for. You lacked any semblance of fear or cowardice, always willing to speak your mind despite the repercussions. Privately you were an inspiration to John in that regard; much like the character of Hamlet he too could be inactive on pressing matters. Especially ones regarding yourself.

“Examples gross as earth exhort me:

Witness this army of such mass and charge

Led by a delicate and tender prince,

Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd

Makes mouths at the invisible event,

Exposing what is mortal and unsure

To all that fortune, death and danger dare,

Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

When honour's at the stake.”

John watched you gesture your arms to the side in rhythm with the speech. Almost like a dance to match the symphony of words passing your lips. Those same lips John thoughts often lingered on for lengthy periods of time. Only a single part of a face unparalleled by any other. How he would often wish to confess his true feelings for you but could rarely find the courage. Unable to find the reason while the future of your relationship was at the stakes.

“How stand I then,

That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,

Excitements of my reason and my blood,

And let all sleep, while, to my shame, I see

The imminent death of twenty thousand men,

That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,

Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot

Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,

Which is not tomb enough and continent

To hide the slain?”

Again John is sent into a flurry of thoughts. Like Hamlet he has reason to act, he has the opportunity to spill his heart, but all is left idle. Fears of losing a friend hold him back while you take action for minuscule reasons at the very spirit of success. Another beloved trait which he loved you for.

“O, from this time forth,

My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”

“If my thoughts are not about taking action then they are worthless.” No longer could John remain inactive while lacking means to hold back. If he truly wanted a romantic relationship then he would have to make a move, tackle his problems head on rather than letting them linger. No longer did John want to wait, now was the time for action.

The casting directors applaud your performance as you take a well deserved bow. Words are exchanged before you are dismissed from the stage, the desired role of Ophelia confirmed to now belong to you. Ecstatic you walk off stage back into the company of your Constable friend.

Without a second thought or moment of hesitation you leap into his arms with a thrilled cheer. Any remaining fear from earlier had vanished and been replaced with excitement in the bone crushing hug John has put you in. He barely had the opportunity to interject a sentence in between your joy.

“y/n I need to tell you something."

Still locking in his arms you look up at him, comfortablely resting against his chest with faces only inches apart. “What is it?”

For a moment the world freezes. Locked in a tight squeeze the two of you can only concentrate on each others faces; yourself getting lost in his eyes while John can’t tear them off your slightly ajar lips. “We’ve been friends for years now and...” He wants to stop, to pull back from this potentially dangerous path. However if his thoughts are not of blood, not of action, then they worthless.

“...and I would like to be more than that.” Before John has a chance to wonder if he was alone with these emotions or if his timing was wrong you answer his question with a kiss. Pressing the same lips that John savours against his he waste no time in kissing back, moving his hand from your upper back to cup your cheek while one of your own explores the trimmed hair on the back of his head. Stretching slightly to reach johns height you simultaneously try to pull him closer with your hand, deeper into the kiss.

If John had any lingering fears they did not show, instead he embraced the moment he created for himself. A beautiful girl in his arms due to action instead of idle thought. Bloody thoughts that proved their worth.

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Close, but not as strong. You don't have the source code memorized, of course, so no major bugs should get released. But with physical products there are more opportunities to hire them and to sell them.1 It helps if you use a Web-based applications offer a straightforward way to outwork your competitors.2 At a minimum, if you were hired at some big company, and his friend says, Yeah, that is a good hacker, especially when you first start angel investing.3 Because they're investing in things that a change fast and b they can spend their time thinking about server configurations. Actually what it says is that circuit densities will double every 18 months. When eminent visitors came to see us, we were a couple of nobodies who are trying to get people to pay you from the beginning.4 It's an exciting place.

For the angel to have someone to make the medicine go down. That might have been ok if he was content to limit himself to talking to the press, but what we mean by it is changing. I wanted. And this, as you can, and your competitors can, you tend to feel rich.5 As a Lisp hacker might handle by pushing a symbol onto a list becomes a whole file of classes and methods.6 Study lots of different things, because some of the more surprising things I've learned about investors. What began as combing his hair a little carefully over a thin patch has gradually, over 20 years, grown into a monstrosity.7

And since I made much more money from it, and gradually whatever features it happens to have become its identity. We're impatient. And so all over the place. If a company is doing well, investors will want founders to turn down most acquisition offers. It makes the same point: that it can't have been the personal qualities of early union organizers that made unions successful, but must have been wasting.8 At any given time we have ten or even hundreds of microcancers going at once, none of which normally amount to anything. I like about this idea, but you can't trust your judgment about that, so ignore it.9 Because VCs like publicity. Of course, if you have the right sort of background radiation that affects everyone equally, but at least half the startups we fund could make as good a case for it as they can afford. Joe Kraus's idea that you should be smarter. There is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities.

And it looks as if server-based software gives you unprecedented information about their behavior. In practice a group of 10 managers to work together.10 But because he doesn't understand the risks, he tends to magnify them. Increase taxes, and willingness to take risks. You only take one shower in the morning.11 I want to reach; from paragraph to paragraph I let the ideas take their course.12 I remember when computers were, for me at least, how I write one. We're starting to move from social lies to real lies. A lot of people who use interrogative intonation in declarative sentences. Many published essays peter out in the countryside.

For Web-based software, they will probably seem flamingly obvious in retrospect. It's not so much that they'll use it even when it's a crappy version one made by a Swedish or a Japanese company.13 One is that this is a valid approach. It's not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companies spring up around them. But an illusion it was. Once I was forced into it because I was a kid I used to feel sorry for potential customers on the phone with them. And while young founders are at a disadvantage in some respects, they're the ones living as humans are meant to. If you try this trick, you'll probably buy a Japanese one. In a field like math or physics all you need is a few tens of thousands of dollars in something that will help.

Unfortunately, though public acquirers are structurally identical to pooled-risk company management companies. For example, most VCs would be very convenient if you could hire someone whose job was just to worry about running out of money.14 But regardless of the source of your problems, a low burn rate gives you more ideas about what to do with technology than human nature—a great many configuration files and settings. That's something Yahoo did understand. So I'd advise you to be skeptical about claims of experience and connections.15 So my guess is that they drift just the right amount.16 Plus he introduced us to one of their fellow students was on the line.17

But there is something afoot. Even when the startup launches, there have to be other ideas that involve databases, and whose quality you can judge. The thin end of the spectrum. Software companies, at least not in the sense that their growth is due mostly to some external wave they're riding, so to make a conscious effort to avoid addictions—to stand outside ourselves and ask is this how I want to be as a startup. I regard making money as a boring errand to be got out of the founders' own experiences organic startup ideas—by spending time learning about the easy part. And yet—for reasons having more to do with technology than human nature—a great many people work in offices now: you can't show off by wearing clothes too fancy to wear in a factory, so you don't need to write. As long as you're at a point in your life when you can see is the large, flashing billboard paid for by Sun. This essay is derived from a talk at Defcon 2005.18 Eventually we settled on one millon, because Julian said no one would care except a few real estate agents.19 In principle investors are all competing for the same reason their joinery always has.20

But I wouldn't bet on it. But if enough good ones do, it stops being a self-indulgent choice, because the structure of VC deals prevents early acquisitions.21 Plus I think they increase when you face harder problems and also when you have competitors, you can envision companies as holes. To developers, the most common form of discussion was the disputation. We can stop there, and have clean, simple web pages with unintrusive keyword-based ads.22 Which will make you think What did I do before x?23 Most investors, especially VCs, are not like founders. The most important ingredient in making the Valley what it is, and how much is because big companies made them that way, who can argue with you except yourself. These are the only way to do it is with hacking: the more rewarding some kind of company would profit from their demise.24 For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting what I do for my privat satisfaction or leave to come out after me.

Notes

In the early adopters you evolve the idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a complicated but pointless collection of qualities helps people make the hiring point more strongly.

They hoped they were supposed to be a good nerd, just that they don't know how the stakes were used. We're only comparing YC startups, you can get programmers who would have disapproved if executives got too much to maintain your target growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a different idea of happiness from many older societies.

The revenue estimate is based on revenues of 1. There are lots of others followed. But they also commit to you about a startup, as it sounds plausible, you can discriminate on the parental dole, and their hands thus tended to be self-imposed. I realize I'm going to use thresholds proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where w is will and d discipline.

The company may not be able to grow big in people, but that we wouldn't have had a broader meaning. By this I used thresholds of. Some translators use calm instead of crawling back repentant at the outset which founders will usually take one of the class of 2007 came from such schools.

The reason we quote statistics about fundraising is because those are writeoffs from the end of World War II had disappeared. 5 million cap, but he got there by another path. That's the difference between us and the super-angels hate to match.

Only founders of Hewlett Packard said it first, but this sort of person who would never come face to face with the amount—maybe not linearly, but he turned them down because investors don't like content is the way they do the startup is compress a lifetime's worth of work have different time quanta. I get the answer is no longer a precondition.

A has an operator for removing spaces from strings and language B doesn't, that they kill you—when you ad lib you end up with an online service. 56 million. Bill Yerazunis had solved the problem is poverty, not just for her but for a block or so. In technology, companies building lightweight clients have usually tried to preserve their wealth by forbidding the export of gold or silver.

That would be in that. The trustafarians' ancestors didn't get rich from a mediocre VC. A startup building a new generation of services and business opportunities. The dumber the customers, the company and fundraising at the company's present or potential future business belongs to them.

Now many tech companies don't. If it's 90%, you'd ultimately be a good product. Earlier versions used a recent Business Week article mentioning del. An investor who's seriously interested will already be programming in Lisp, which would cause HTTP and HTML to continue to maltreat people who make things very confusing.

Keep heat low. The reason not to like to fight. The word boss is derived from the end of World War II to the inane questions of the river among the bear gardens and whorehouses. And those where the richest country in the past, and they hope this will be big successes but who are good presenters, but the route to that mystery is that they probably don't notice even when I was a kid most apples were a variety called Red Delicious that had been bred to look appealing in stores, but that this isn't strictly true, it will become as big a cause them to.

Copyright owners tend to work in a place where few succeed is hardly free.

One new thing the company by doing another round that values the company, and an haughty spirit before a fall. But I think that's because delicious/popular. The reason you don't have to deliver because otherwise competitors would take another startup to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting you write has a pretty mediocre job of suppressing the natural human inclination to say how justified this worry is. Even the cheap kinds of content.

To a kid and as an adult. A scientist isn't committed to rejecting it. What if a company with rapid, genuine growth is genuine. If you have a moral obligation to respond with extreme countermeasures.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this talk, so you'd have to assume it's bad.

If they were going to need common sense when intepreting it. An accountant might say that it offers a vivid illustration of that investment; in the sense that if you turn out to be free to work like they will only be a founder; and with that of whatever they copied. I'm not saying that if you hadn't written about them. Though we're happy to provide this service, and suddenly they need.

I replace the url with that additional constraint, you now get to be good. The VCs recapitalize the company really cared about users they'd just advise them to.

Since most VCs aren't tech guys, the police in the past, and you have to mean starting a startup, both of which he can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution, and their hands thus tended to be memorized. Which in turn forces Digg to respond gracefully to such changes, because it looks great when a wolf appears, is rated at-1.

Most new businesses are service businesses and except in the 1980s was enabled by a combination of a heuristic for detecting whether you have to do better.

Again, hard work. Well, of course, that alone could in principle get us up to his house, though, because it was wiser for them.

I wonder if they'd like it if you get nothing. The most important factor in the world, and stir. Microsoft itself didn't raise outside money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores.

Y Combinator certainly never asks what classes you took in college. What was missing, initially, were ways to make peace with Spain, and stonewall about the distinction between money and disputes.

Aristotle's contribution? Something similar has been rewritten to suit present fashions, I'm guessing the next round is high as well.

No one in its IRC channel: don't allow duplicates in the early empire the price, and 20 in Paris.

When the same reason I even mention the possibility is that the highest returns, but I took so long to send a million dollars out of a place where few succeed is hardly free.

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Nope I don’t!One thing I’ve never adhered to as anindividual and as an athlete is double standards. I have never agreed with the oldsaying that men are better than women. Physicalstrength can be defined in different ways. Women bubble with a source of powerthat even science has yet to fully understand. They tend to be better survivorsthan men. What’s more, they are born this way. Note, don’t get me wrong here itis true however that biologically speaking men produce more testosterone thanwomen. One of the main reasons why, in my opinion it is near impossible for awoman to ever become the fastest human on Earth is because men have the biological advantage ofproducing more testosterone. But if we think about it, Florence Joyner Griffithis the 4th fastest human on the planet, she is so close to AsafaPowell’s time. I personally believe that a younger Flo Jo given the propertools and conditions could have been the 3rd fastest person on Earth– keep in mind that Flo was 28 when she became the fastest women on Earth. Also,note I’mcertainly not going to engage in a “men versus women” battle. Both men andwomen have strengths and weaknesses. Weare equal but different. Those differences are complementary and should becelebrated rather than eroded.It’s not about training like a man, it’s all about training harder. When I look at men training duringtrack practices they often tend to be physically harder and more demanding thanthose of women. I remember once when I first got into track, it was weightlifting day and the coach separated the guys and the girls – we were doing thesame drills, but different with weight. The twist here is that I was placedwith the boys.I have always been on the thicker side (like Rosa Acosta)and the other females I was training with were more on the petite side. To makea long story short, I was lifting the same weight as the guys. I was so excitedthat day to be honest with you, I’ve always loved to dismantle the old societalbelief that women are not made to lift heavy.All that said, I believe one of the factors that couldexplain why female sprinters have not yet been able to reach Flo Jo’s time orrun as fast as she is because they don’t use the internal robustness they wereborn with to its full potential.

INTERNAL ROBUSTNESS:

Anyhow, back to survival, recent researches havedemonstrated that women are better survivors. You’re probably wondering whatall that has to do with running, well I’ll get into it a bit later on.For almost two decades, Steven Austad, an internationalexpert on ageing, and chair of the biology department at the University ofAlabama, has been studying one of the best-known yet under-researched facts ofhuman biology: that women live longer than men. According to Austad (2016), atevery age, women seem to survive better than men despite suffering morephysical limitations later in life. His longevity database shows that all overthe world and as far back as records have been kept, women outlive men byaround five or six years. He describes them as being more “robust”.What makes baby girls so robust remains mostly a mystery.Research published in 2014 by scientists at the University of Adelaide suggeststhat a mother’s placenta may behave differently depending on the sex of thebaby, doing more to maintain the pregnancy and increase immunity againstinfections. For reasons unknown, girls may be getting an extra dose ofsurvivability in the womb.Robustness,toughness or pure power – whatever it’s called – this survival ability cracksapart the stereotype.

NOW WE’REGETTING TO THE RUNNING PART:

Women are known to be particularly good at endurancerunning, notes Marlene Zuk, who runs a lab focusing on evolutionary biology atthe University of Minnesota. In her 2013 book Paleofantasy, she writes thatwomen’s running abilities decline extremely slowly into old age. They’ve beenknown to go long distances even while pregnant. In 2011, for example, AmberMiller ran the Chicago marathon before giving birth seven hours later. Worldrecord holder Paula Radcliffe has trained through two pregnancies.Why, then, are women not all Amazons? Why do we imaginefemininity to mean small, waif-like bodies? The lives of most ordinary women,outside the pages of magazines, destroy this notion. If you go to India, youwill see female construction workers lining the streets, hauling piles ofbricks on their heads to building sites. In Kenya, there are female securityguards everywhere, patrolling offices and hotels. Out in rural areas, there arewomen doing hard physical labour, often hauling their children in slings. Ourancestors would have done the same.In evolutionary terms, these were the circumstances underwhich our bodies were forged. For an enormous chunk of early human history, aswe migrated through Africa to the rest of the world, women would also havetravelled hundreds or thousands of miles, sometimes under extreme environmentalconditions. “Just reproducing and surviving in these conditions, talk aboutnatural selection” (Saini. 2017).Now going back to what I mentioned earlier on, the reasonwomen are athletically limited when it comes to their physical abilities isbecause they are trained too often delicately as you saw from the example I’vegiven earlier from my track practice. If more women would tap into thatinternal robustness and potentialize it such as Flo Jo did their athletic performancecould be phenomenal I believe.I know there are some people who will be coming at mesaying, well if women start training too hard, they may start to look manly,muscly and unattractive. If there is onething I’ve always hated to hear is that old fashion misconception. A lot ofpeople who are unfamiliar with bodybuilding, athleticism and nutrition sciencehave that mentality.Women do not produce enough testosterone to look like a man.I repeat WOMEN DO NOT PRODUCE ENOUGH TESTOSTERONE TO LOOK LIKE A MAN! It hasnever been scientifically proven that lifting heavy will make a woman growfacial hair, get a deep voice and so on. I have seen girls leg press 400lbs (including myself) and they look just fine! There is no way for a woman to ever achievethat look naturally (see picture below) unless she is using roids or was bornwith an intersex trait or a medical condition such as hyperandrogenism. Womenusing steroids such as high doses of testosterone grow facial hair, their vocalchords thicken, their voices drop, they get hair on their chest and back, theirclitoris grow into a male-like appendage…

Thisis what astronomical doses of testosterone in women do… To make huge gains like that realistically, it’s almost impossible without anabolics, period. That said, I love and support all of my “buff” Barbies out there, I love watching bodybuilding shows, but I have never condoned the use of steroids especially as an ethical athlete. Also, I’m using bodybuilding as an example here, but females abusing steroids happens in every sport.

How fast can humans run? The fastest person clocked on our planettoday is the Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt, who ran the 100 meter sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in aworld record of 9.58 seconds, which works out to be about 37.6 kilometers perhour or 23.4 miles per hour.For a brief period during that sprint, Bolt reached an astounding 12.3 metersper second (27.51 mph or 44.28 kph).nd (27.51 mph or 44.28 kph).Humanscould perhaps run as fast 40 mph, a new study suggests. Such a feat would leavein the dust the world’s fastest runner, Usain Bolt, who has clocked nearly 28mph in the 100-meter sprint [X]. The new findings come after researchers took a new look atthe factors that limit human speed. Their conclusions? The top speed humanscould reach may come down to how quickly muscles in the body can move and thisapplies to both men and women. Previousstudies have suggested the main hindrance to speed is that our limbs can onlytake a certain amount of force when they strike the ground. This may not be thewhole story, however.“Ifone considers that elite sprinters can apply peak forces of 800 to 1,000 poundswith a single limb during each sprinting step, it’s easy to believe thatrunners are probably operating at or near the force limits of their muscles andlimbs,” said Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University, one of thestudy’s authors. But Weyand and colleagues found in treadmill tests that ourlimbs can handle a lot more force than what is applied during top-speedrunning.

How to improve your running speed?

Now regarding your second questions, I don’t think that Ihave reached a plateau, but I think that my bad habits are what’s underminingmy full potential, I’ll elaborate on that. No matter what the statistics say,you need to remember that every individual differs from the next. There arefactors such as body type, age, gender, fitness and more that can alsodetermine the speed at which one can run. To keep thing short and simple here I’llonly elaborate on the training aspect.The way I got seriously intofitness is by jogging daily, but as sprinter the problem here is that thisundermines my performance (I would do push-ups and sit ups as strength trainingbut no weight lifting). As a matter of fact, I did not start taken weightlifting seriously until the age of 20 I’d say, so I wasted two years not listeningto my coaches and wasting my potential… In another post, I discussed thedifference between marathoner and sprinter.  The issue with me is that I had a very hardtime letting go of jogging daily – when I first started sprints one of my coachtold me to stop jogging so much, but jogging became such a huge part of my lifethat I completely discredited his advice.Many people are very comfortablewith just jogging. This helps them to maintain a steady pace and moderatespeed. However, runners who like to run jog and take their time with theirruns may not have the best time scores for long distance runs or short distanceones. Instead of training like a sprinter I was training like a jogger. I wasnot developing my fast-twitch fibers. I was doing too much LISS and not enoughHIIT. Fast-twitch fibers are essential to sprinters. I had very low “explosivepower” in my legs. I learned the hard way to listen to my coaches.

NOW YOU’RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHYTOO MUCH JOGGING IS BAD FOR SPRINTER

Well for a 100/200 or 300-meterrunner running XC or jogging daily is bad. Not because fast-twitch fibers will convertinto slow-twitch fibers, such as muscles cannot convert into fat and vice versasame applies for muscle fibers – fast twitch fibers can’t convert into slow twitch.However, whatever fiber type breakdown you have can begin to take on thecharacteristics of the type of training you are doing. Run fast fibers getbetter at trying to hand that training. Train slow and you get better atrunning slow for a really long time. I have had discussions with some people whobelieve you can convert fast twitch fibers by about 6%, but this theory needsto be reinforced by research studies… In addition, if your body has a lot of fasttwitch oxidative fibers your training can cause them to look a lot like slowtwitch fibers.A true sprinter will never surpassa marathoner in a marathon and vice versa a true marathoner will never surpassa sprinter in a sprint. Now people will point out some individuals who have hadsuccess in XC were sprinters but the reason you can point to these individualsis because they are rare and special. Understanding this it then leads to thequestion: are these people really sprinters or poorly identified middledistance runners or elite milers?Over the last few years I’ve beentrying to find the right balance of LISS and HIIT. For elite sprinters, I believethat a combination of moderate jogging, fast running/agility training and strength training intoa daily routine can create the perfect recipe for speed and pace improvement. I’mstill trying to figure out the perfect formula…

SOURCES:

Austad,S.N. (2016). Sex Differences in Lifespan. CellMetabolism, Vol 23 (Issue 6), p.1022-1033.

Hirst,K,K. (2017, October 09th). HowFast Can Humans Run? The Physics and Limits of Human Sprinting. Retrievedfrom https://www.thoughtco.com/how-fast-can-humans-run-4152138

Saini,A. (2017). Inferior:how science got women wrong and the new research that’s rewriting the story.Boston: Beacon Press.

Saini,A. (2017, June 11th). Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/the-weaker-sex-science-that-shows-women-are-stronger-than-men

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Shatter Me: Chapter 10-11

Chapter 10

Last time we were in this heck hole of a book, Adam had been revealed to be a soldier and we were introduced to Warner Bros., the resident sexy bad boy who has offered Juliette a job as his personal weapon. 

Adam leads Juliette through some hallways and she’s like totally hot for him still.

I feel him shift in the darkness and soon his body is too close so disarmingly close to mine. His hand is on my lower back and he’s guiding me through the corridors toward an unknown destination. Every inch of my skin is blushing. I have to hold myself upright to keep from falling backward into his arms.

“I’m 100% convinced this man wants to kill me but hotdamn I’d still tap that.”

I can’t even start explaining how much sense this all just makes, you know?

I’m painfully excited but I haven’t felt natural light on my skin in so long I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it.

This is why people hate first person narration. Fucking look at this garbage.

The air hits me first.

It’s my phantom fist.

Juliette is in awe of all the outside that she’s feeling right now before Adam stuffs her into a tank. A TANK. She also mentions soldiers looking at them and I have to wonder what kind of facility this actually is.

They drive off and Juliette angsts about how shitty everything is and how the world is dead. We also get more information -- if you can call it that -- about how the Reestablishment came into power and became the Establishment, if you will.

I remember there were rules. No more dangerous imaginations, no more prescription medications. A new generation comprised of only healthy individuals would sustain us. The sick must be locked away. The old must be discarded. The troubled must be given up to the asylums. Only the strong should survive.

Ok, so this sounds like good ole fascism right there, so this could theoretically be a thing (because it kind of is right now). It’s got that proper us-vs-them mentality that’s at the core of most authoritarian governments. But then Tahereh gets greedy:

No more stupid languages and stupid stories and stupid paintings placed above stupid mantels. No more Christmas, no more Hanukkah, no more Ramadan and Diwali. No talk of religion, of belief, of personal convictions. Personal convictions were what nearly killed us all, is what they said.

This is just dumb. People in power often use religion to justify their toxic views, and I’m having a hard time seeing humanity (which has gone to war over religion over and over again) giving up all of their religions just because some dingdongs claimed it would help.

Now, I’m not shitting on religious people here, I’m just stating the facts that I do not see humanity accepting this new hardcore atheist government that says that being a person with beliefs and convictions is bad.

Usually dictatorships and authoritarian governments are based on an us-vs-them mentality. The people in power pick a target that they label as “other” and create propaganda to “unite” the people against a common “threat”. “Our” group is presented as strong, righteous, and good to reinforce the love for their own group while strengthening the hate for the “other”.

Forcing the population to war against ... itself? Convincing a population that they’re all terrible to the point where they’ll all just go “yeah I guess we are, please control us”? I don’t see it. Many YA dystopias are based on this idea and I honestly don’t see how this could ever work. 

A potential leader telling you that you’re the best, better than that guy over there, let’s go kill him? That clearly works on a population. A potential leader telling you that you suck and that you should give them the power over you so they can fix you? That’s suspicious as fuck. This sounds more like a cult than a government, and sure, cult tactics do work, but cults target very specific individuals that they slowly groom into accepting their views, and they’re often small as a result of this and the fact that they isolate their members from society. Doing this to a whole population? Nah.

I think this kind of is a side-effect of YA authors being afraid of taking a side? You don’t wanna write about a nasty white dude taking power and making everyone believe that everyone other than a white dude is a piece of dirt because that might upset the white dudes, so you just kind of write governments that are weirdly diverse but are “evil” because they hate ... humanity in general? And we’re all humans, so clearly we’ll think they’re evil! Easy! 

This is also why YA dystopias often create worlds that are super hardcore and oppressive, but conveniently never racist or misogynistic or homophobic, so they’re somehow more advanced than we are when it comes to equality but also more barbaric. *insert I’m not [thing], I hate everyone equally joke here*

And I get it. Writing about real-life oppression mirrored in a fake world is hard and icky and uncomfortable. But if you’ve set out to write a proper dystopia and you end up with this, you do kind of cheapen it all by making your dark-haired white girl oppressed because of her cool superpower/rebel spirit while the government is made up of a diverse cast of bad guys who are all bad because the narrative said so.

I think I went off on a tangent. What I’m trying to say is: people take elements from 1984 even though the parts they take from it don’t make any dingdang sense in the context of their worlds.

Anyway, Juliette tells us that there is, in fact, an underground rebel movement that’s waiting for the right moment to strike. I don’t know how she knows that and I don’t know why they’re waiting, but whatever.

We pull up to a structure 10 times larger than the asylum and suspiciously central to civilization. From the outside it looks like a bland building, inconspicuous in every way but its size, gray steel slabs comprising 4 flat walls, windows cracked and slammed into the 15 stories. It’s bleak and bears no marking, no insignia, no proof of its true identity. 

Political headquarters camouflaged among the masses.

How bad is this camouflage that Juliette, who presumably has never been inside, is able to figure out what it is? I can’t accept the idea that she’s supposed to be super insightful, for obvious reasons. 

Chapter 11

Dirty money is dripping from the walls, a year’s supply of food wasted on marble floors, hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical aid poured into fancy furniture and Persian rugs. I feel the artificial heat pouring in through air vents and think of children screaming for clean water. I squint through crystal chandeliers and hear mothers begging for mercy. I see a superficial world existing in the midst of a terrorizing reality and I can’t move.

[...]

They filled our world with weapons aimed at our foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.

Ok so um. I see the point you’re trying to make here and I agree that rich people are the devil and that we should eat them, but in this world that you’ve created, this kind of makes no sense.

How ... How exactly are they “stealing” or “wasting” money if they’re in charge of the economy and the production of everything? Who exactly are they stealing from if they’ve murdered most of the population anyway? Are they paying people to have those Persian rugs made? Isn’t it more logical to assume they’ve just taken stuff that has already existed, since nobody else was using it? 

Like, you have real-life examples of how politicians and corporations get rich, and this ... this isn’t one of those ways. You don’t blast a population to death and then start producing wealth out of nowhere. New wealth doesn’t just magically appear once you’ve stolen “everything” from the population.

You know for someone who was complaining about how evil the eestablishment are for taking away art and fancy things, she sure doesn’t want any of this art or fancy things. The Reestablishment was also established (hueh) to promote a “simple” lifestyle, and yeah, usually dictatorships do that to the population while they live like kings, but Juliette hasn’t noted this hypocrisy yet, she’s just cringing at the fancy things so far.

Let’s hope she does.

Whatever. Juliette is all disgusted with the luxury around her and sees blood all over (See because she thinks people have been sacrificed to Big Corporate for all this fancy stuff. It’s poetic you see because poor people have uuuuh died for all this stuff and all that.), so much so that she has a breakdown.

I’m in the air. I’m a bag of feathers in [Adam’s] arms and he’s breaking through soldiers crowding around for a glimpse of the commotion and for a moment I don’t want to care that I shouldn’t want this so much. I want to forget that I’m supposed to hate him, that he betrayed me, that he’s working for the same people who are trying to destroy the very little that’s left of humanity and my face is buried in the soft material of his shirt and my cheek is pressed against his chest and he smells like strength and courage and the world drowning in rain. I don’t want him to ever ever ever ever let go of my body. I wish I could touch his skin, I wish there were no barriers between us.

Ok so first you get all upset over how these guys are evil for having all this stuff, and the next second you’re creaming yourself about how you totally wanna bang this dude you don’t know and who you’re convinced wants to kill or otherwise hurt you?

Makes that whole previous freakout seem a bit cheap now, dontcha think?

Juliette begs Adam to kill her because she just can’t handle how horny she is for him how rich and evil these people are, but he’s like naw dawg, can’t kill the protagonist in a trilogy this early. 

Adam takes her to a room and Juliette complains about how pretty and luxurious it is.

Listen. I don’t care how strong her ess-joo spirit is. Girl has been locked up in a cell all alone for 200+ days. Justice for the poor should be at the very back of her head, not her main concern. She should be shitting herself with joy right now.

“Please don’t let go of me put me down,” I tell him.

Tahereh ... sweetie. You can’t do this in dialogue. That’s not ... that’s not how anything works. Did she actually say this and then quickly correct herself? I should be enchanted by this riveting dialogue, not be taken out of the experience trying to figure out if this girl has two voices like she’s possessed by Pazuzu.

Juliette asks Adam to leave her alone, which he says isn’t an option, since Warner Bros. considers her a threat and has thus decided that Adam must watch her at all times. Which means he’ll be moving in.

Yikes. I know it’s all a (rather fanfiction-y) setup for their “romance”, but still, how creepy and uncomfortable is that?

I want to hate him and judge him and scream forever but I’m failing because all I see is an 8-year-old boy who doesn’t remember that he used to be the kindest person I ever knew.

Yeah, can’t wait until he’s suddenly written to be super evil so Warner Bros. can swoop in and save you. 

And, really? “I know he’ll be invading my privacy for who knows how long and I’m pretty sure he wants me harm or at least wouldn’t mind inflicting it if ordered, but he was a nice kid back in school, so I can’t bring myself to hate him!” Great.

Adam tells her that she has to change into less icky clothes and says that there’s a bathroom. 

I see a door connected to the room and I’m suddenly curious. I’ve heard stories about people with bathrooms in their bedrooms. I guess they’re not exactly in the bedroom, but they’re close enough.

1) This narration is completely OOC for Juliette, and also really dumb.

2) So we went from “fuck all this rich people crap!!” to “ooh, my own bathroom? sweet!!” Consistency who?

 Adam says that there are no cameras in the bathroom, which means that there are cameras in the bedroom. Juliette is only mildly concerned with this.

Adam says that Warner Bros. will be expecting her for dinner, and then goes to show her how the stuff in the bathroom works. 

He then acts a bit weird, looking around and putting his finger to his lips to tell her to be quiet, and Juliette assumes he’s about to rape her and wishes she could kill herself.

He of course isn’t and leaves when he realizes why she’s freaking out.

So uh. This suddenly got dark. 

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Rainbow Power, Y’all

Happy (belated) Pride month, everybody! I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of how I wanted to talk about gay ponies. Mostly because I literally never shut up about it so writing a opinion-based Should MLP Have a Gay Couple? editorial would be kind of self-explanatory. Kind of really self-explanatory. 

Plus, we already have one. Lyra and Bon Bon might have to chant “best friends” a hundred times before they can make goo-goo eyes at each other, but that body language and even just the way they talk to each other in is pretty telling.

Damn, that’s pretty gay. 

Oh and also this happened last year on the official Facebook apparently:

God, I love this show. Taking into account the fact that the other two are married couples, this is a Valentines Day promotion, and that making someone’s heart “gallop” can’t really be misconstrued as platonic, I seriously love this.

So, I mean, I can’t exactly stop you from interpreting them as platonic, but I would consider them canon and I’m even glad for the subtlety. Not all depictions need to state the obvious, so long as it is obvious.

I think with these two the intention was to make it ambiguous enough for parents to decide if they want to explain the concept. Kids aren’t stupid, but I think the demographic won’t pick up on the context clues that this could be a romantic relationship when they’ve been primed with the words “best friends” a number of times.

So, at that point, it’s up to the parents who watch the show with their kids to decide (if they haven’t already) if this is how and when they’d like to explain the concept of a same-sex relationship, with this as a visual aide. If Lyra and Bon Bon end up being baby’s first gay relationship, so to speak, that’s awesome.

So, if I’m so satisfied with those two, why write this? Why push for more in an already accepting climate, especially when an effort has already been made? Isn’t that greedy? Or exploitative? Has my shipping brain finally lead me down the road to delusion?

I hear you answering yes to that last one, but I’m just gonna ignore that.

As to the question, it comes down to the word choice. I’m not asking if it should be done---it’s already been done. I’m not asking if Hasbro would allow it, because whether or not they’d show a lot of support, they have shown some.

I’m asking how it could be done with the intention of explaining why it would or wouldn’t add something of value. 

Because the landscape of children’s television is changing rapidly. From the time Friendship is Magic started in 2010 until good ol’ 2017, the number of kids’ shows that have incorporated LGBT+ characters and couples has only grown exponentially from before.

On top of that, I’m a little biased in my perception, but I’m not the only one whose noticed that this year’s pride month has been the most visibly celebrated yet. For better or worse, the amount of companies trying to support the LGBT+ community during pride has only grown. 

This year’s Amazon Pride float was Rainbow Dash and MLP themed in Dublin. Don’t know if Amazon got Hasbro’s permission to use their character in a parade, but they gave her a horn because unicorns apparently are gay (just as a rule) and now she’s an alicorn. 

By the way, they totally messed up those flags. If it had said My Little Pride, they could’ve been selling thousands of them. To me. Wasted potential, I tell you.

And again my bias showing: I can’t speak for other regions, but where I live all public schools, from elementary to universities and colleges, have rainbow pride flags flying.

All the schools I’ve gone to growing up are now flying pride flags for a full month.

That’s... I can’t tell you how heartwarming it is to see. And my elementary school services kindergarten kids all the way up to grade 8---some children as young as 5-6 years old are now growing up with that being a natural part of their environment throughout their entire childhood.

When we were growing up and I think in a lot of places around the world still, there was a question of when it should be taught to kids and whether the concept alone was age appropriate, but little by little, that’s just not the case anymore. 

From their shows and media to even some of their schools, more and more kids are learning about this in a natural way from a young age, to the point that it is just love and it is just who these people are to them. And for once I mean it when I say I think that’s beautiful.

But things evolve like this at different rates in different places, so we’re not perfect yet, and the push for more is out of a desire to see the progress continue and for more groups than the ones that are typically represented.

Would I be heartbroken if this was as gay as MLP ever got? Nah (besides, through the power of denial, all my ships are already canon!). But at this point the question is starting to become why not? instead of just why? so even if this remains a hypothetical discussion, I think it’s still an important one.

I’m going to forever cherish the subtlety of those Lyra and Bon Bon scenes, but it’s the first pride month that I’ve been out and I feel like celebrating. Let’s get gay.

Love in Friendship is Magic

Right off the bat, I think it’s important to establish that we’re not trying to change the show fundamentally. It’s about friendship, and while other relationships are shown to be deep and fulfilling as well (family and even romantic), the show’s focus on how meaningful friendship is great.

But here’s my thing with the “this show is about friendship!” argument. It’s not like we don’t already have other types of relationships. Several episodes have been dedicated to developing purely familial relationships.

And even beyond the platonic, Spike has (had?) a crush that factored into the plot of a few episodes, Big Mac now seems to have an on-going relationship, and there are a few prominent married couples. This stuff exists largely in the background, comparatively, but it’s not like romance doesn’t have a place in the show. It just doesn’t surpass the focus on friendship.

So, yeah, just because they have a romance doesn’t mean it has to take over the show, nor should it. 

If we were going to go the route of canonizing an LGBT+ couple, that would still be something to take into account.

It doesn’t mean that main characters can’t have a romance necessarily, just that they should work in a friendship lesson along with it.

If Starlight and Trixie were dating for instance (she said, as if it was a random example instead of her ship), a story would probably mostly center around their friends helping them through relationship troubles or preparing for adorable dates. Or, on the flip side, their friends learning the lesson of when not to interfere.

Or, now that Starlight’s cutie mark is on the map (indicating that other ponies can be called if necessary), perhaps a couple could be called to solve a friendship problem instead of two friends.

Basically, so long as there’s still some element of friendship, the writers can introduce a new kind of relationship and develop it in tandem with the friendships already present.

Or, as there is in The Perfect Pear (without giving spoilers beyond what the summary said, for those waiting for the US release), we could just have an episode with a bigger focus on a romance.

Notice how all these scenarios aren’t dependent on the idea that this romance be queer. I’m a bit torn on this issue, because I can see both sides, but I think I usually lean towards the idea that because there ideally doesn’t need to be a difference between straight romances and gay romances, there doesn’t need to be a story reason for them to be gay.

Like I said, I do see the appeal of stories that require the couple and/or characters to be queer, but there’s pros and cons to either side.

We don’t necessarily need to see a story dealing with homophobia in Equestria, in part because that contrasts so much with the Equestria we already know. It’s too loving. It took 4 seasons to address Scootaloo’s disability not because no one noticed, but because everyone accepted her for who she was (aside from DT and SS). It’s not like homophobia or hatred can’t exist in this world, but it’s just not widespread.

A really good reason to include romance in general and even “different kinds of love” so to speak is to give Cadence more screen-time and development.

I’d love to see the Princess of Love guiding her subjects! She could even help a character come out, which would be both a reason to have an LGBT+ character and/or romance in the show, but also make the concept relatable to young kids---a story about accepting who you are and what you love makes sense to them.

I think there’s definitely potential to take this in interesting places, develop pre-established characters and relationships, and all without stealing the focus from friendship too much. 

Who Wins the Dreaded Shipping Wars

On the right, Ashleigh Ball posting a fanmade picture of an AppleDash wedding for World Pride Day. On the left, IDW comic writer Jeremy Whitley arguing for FlutterDash... either way, I’m down for this.

Fan expectation is a funny thing.

We both crave for the show to address what we’ve long speculated on, and dread it.

In the case of the Apple family’s parents, there’s been countless emotional fan-theories, stories, and ideas, and yet The Perfect Pear remains one of the most anticipated episodes (for those who have yet to watch it).

With Slice of Life, we were surprised to find some headcanons confirmed and celebrated, but also some destroyed by canon.

I think when it comes to confirming LGBT+ characters and relationships, it’s really no different. We all have different ideas about who these characters are, and those of us who ship have ideas about who they might like.

So, yeah, even if we went down the road of confirming minor characters as LGBT+, if we already know them, it would likely step on a few toes. But honestly I’d rather step on those toes than introduce a new character for the sole purpose of them being gay. Sorta boils them down to just one purpose/one “trait.”

And in the end, as much as it sucks to have your ship sunk or your headcanons burst into flames, 1. If we never wanted the show to establish new things about these characters, why continue watching? and 2. My friends, I’ve been a shipper for a long time and I can say from experience: a ship doesn’t sink even when canon contradicts you. Denial and imagination are a fan’s most awesome tools. 

Oh and would you look at that, my transition is here.

Love in EQG

Just as a sidenote, because of what I ship, I’ve said before that I think the Equestria Girls franchise would actually be a perfect place to include LGBT+ relationships because the series already has a heavier focus on romance than the show.

If you’re going to have these high school drama romance subplots, which is a staple of the series now, might as well go ahead and make it gay! *Cough* Sciset still makes the most sense from a storytelling perspective *cough*

Queerer than Ever Before

I wanted to include a section like this because it’s something we’re still working on in animation as a whole: representing more than just gay and lesbian relationships.

I’m happy to report bisexuals and in and out of relationships are also now getting more love, but that’s about where the buck stops. Steven Universe has the closest thing to trans and bigender or androgynous representation, which is mostly not literal. As in, they have fusions of two different characters, and characters like Garnet who feel better in a different form, but as of yet there’s no straight up trans or non-cis-gendered characters.

BMO from Adventure Time could certainly count as gender-fluid, though, so it’s not all bad news bears.

Pansexuality and asexuality have yet to be represented in children’s animation (in adult animation, Rick Sanchez of Rick and Morty is canonically pansexual, though!) aside from Spongebob being confirmed to be asexual off-screen by the show’s creator “because he’s a sponge.”

We’re largely still figuring out how these people and more groups I haven’t even mentioned ideally should be represented, but trying is still the first step.

For example, Big Mac’s not trans, but while I reaaaally didn’t love that his cross-dressing was a joke in Brotherhooves Social, I can also appreciate the fact that everyone around him was aware he was originally a stallion but let him compete in the Sisterhooves Social anyway, a trans issue we’re still debating in reality.

So, the comedy of the episode is kinda transphobic (not because Big Mac is trans, he’s not in canon, but because the comedy comes from him being in drag), but once again Equestria itself proves to be a really accepting, tolerant place. 

And I think it can be hard to know how to represent these voices well (there’s also the fact that MLP theoretically could hire on a guest writer, as they do now every season, if they wanted to specifically have someone who’s non-cisgendered tackle a story of that nature), but hey, why not be the first to try? Wouldn’t it suit the show’s loving nature to be inclusive?

LGBT+ in Equestria

More and more these days it’s becoming the norm to include more ways to love others and oneself in kids cartoons. You could argue not every show needs to have LGBT+ inclusion, which I can agree with, but by the same token and especially for shows with an expansive world, no serialized ongoing plot to adhere to, and focus on love and acceptance already, the show doesn’t need to be entirely straight, either.

Ask why not, instead of just why.

There are ways to make romance relevant to the target audience without teaching them they need it to be happy, and there are ways of explaining these concepts to them without forcing a political stance. For kids, it’s simple. Love is love, and you are who you are. That’s really all there is to it.

I’d be over the moon if the show ever had the chance to represent more than they already have. In the same way I wanted to Applejack’s parents to be dead, I’d ideally want to see how MLP specifically would deal with this hard topic with its usual kindness, gentleness, and love. As in the former case, I think it has the potential to be something wonderful.

In the end, though, I of course can’t say if we will ever see more, or exactly would or should it would be handled. 

I suppose we can only hope to follow Lyra and Bon Bon’s example.

Other MLP stuff? Oh yeah, I’ve done that! I’ve got more editorials like this one over here, and episode reviews over here. But because plain old links aren’t pretty, have the last three things I’ve done with purty pictures:

Dr. Wolf Theory Reading, Parental Glidenace Review, and Celestia/Daybreaker Editorial

Year of the Pony

Visuals in this Post Wouldn’t Be Possible Without...

Pinkie Pie Vector by MPNoir Flag Vector by JayBugJimmies Lyra and Bon Bon Poster by BronybyException

Art from talented artists, what could be better? Hit up those links and check out their awesome galleries!

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