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And what’s funny is she played it smart — not only by giving herself some plausible deniability by writing it about high schools and colleges in general rather than just about our school, but also by calling out the worst sports specifically. She could have left it at ALL student athletes, but by explicitly stating that football and basketball are the worst perpetrators, she won all the other athletes to her side — golf, tennis, swimming, track. Instead of having all student athletes at her throat, she turned everyone against the basketball and football teams.

My mom had done that. Printed off like 80 pages of budget reports. We found staggeringly huge money wastes. The football team had hired a retired NFL coach (not cheap) as a second string coach. Instead of using the county approved vendors, the Poms team had their uniforms custom made at Victoria secret because the pomp’s coach worked there on weekends but the price was like three times that of the approved vendor.

I brought some of these points up in my paper in discussion how other extracurriculars like theater, band, etc had to have boosters to be able to afford basic necessities (theater had asked for some extra dividing walls that could be used to partition the choir room to allow for boys and girls to change in privacy instead of in the open like we usually did but were denied because it wasn’t in our budget). I was told by my teacher it was incorrect and I needed to cite sources and not “libel” programs at our school with baseless accusations. I brought in the forms printed off the next day and was told I was being snotty and vindictive and that those programs helped bring in money from the state because our football team was so good.

The band room had instruments from the 70s that were falling apart. The theater department didn’t have a budget for set design so the director spent it out of her own pocket to get screws and wood. There were ACADEMIC clubs that had to be cancelled because there wasn’t money to pay teachers the overtime to be sponsors after school. The school’s television program, which ran the daily announcements, operated with some of the most ancient tech. Again, because their budgets had been slashed in favor of sportsball kicking.

Teacher was a sponsor for one of the sports that had just recently gotten brand new uniforms despite the fact the old ones were only about 3 years old. I was livid about being shoved off. I didn’t care that the football team making state helped with some sponsorships—they didn’t need to be dumping money into professional NFL coaches. The Poms team could have done a booster to get the fancy uniforms. It was ridiculous. I ended up going to a school board meeting and asking why on earth this was acceptable.

Well. Apparently it was not and not being monitored because the following year the principal (who was so avidly pro sports you would have thought she assumed school academics were an annoying side purpose for public education dollars) was asked to retire. Can’t fire teachers or administrators easily thanks to the unions which have their upsides but seriously so much shitty behavior was covered up by that. It ended up leveling off and the next year we got more money in the budgets for other extracurriculars but I won’t ever forget the attitude I got for trying to expose the grifting done for sports over academics or “nerdy” extracurriculars.

Karma got it though, the following year we sold out every damn night of our production of West Side Story and made back our budget and then some.

Concept: Visually impaired spells. 

For example, colorblind mages cast fireballs with colors only they can see – if they see only yellow and white, then everybody else sees yellow and white fireballs too.

They are shooting the scene in Desolation of Smaug where Kili and Tauriel are having their first real conversation in the dungeons.

In the scene, they talk about a party happening upstairs (something about the stars, I can’t remember). Legolas is supposed to be seen staring at the two of them in jealousy ‘cause he likes Tauriel.

🛡 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Hour and Minute Weapon (a dagger and shortsword), very rare (requires attunement) ___

These two magical weapons are bound by a powerful force. Despite there being two weapons, you only need to attune to one of them to use their properties. While holding one of the weapons, you can use an action to determine the distance and direction of the other paired weapon as long as you’re on the same plane of existence.

If you attune to one of the weapons while another creature is attuned to the other, you are each aware of the other creature’s attunement and must make an Intelligence (Arcana) check contested by the other creature’s Intelligence (Arcana) check. The creature that wins the contest remains attuned to the item, and for the next 24 hours, its attunement cannot be broken by another creature attempting to attune to the other weapon. The creature that loses the contest is no longer attuned to the weapon.

While holding both weapons in either hand, you gain several benefits: • You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with these magic weapons. • Your perception of time is slightly quickened: allowing you to dodge attacks that would have normally hit you. You gain a +1 bonus to AC. • When you roll a 20 on an attack roll using Hour (the dagger) against a creature, that creature is under the effects of the "slow" spell until the end of its next turn. • When you roll a 20 on an attack roll using Minute (the shortsword), you’re under the effects of the "haste" spell until the start of your next turn. When the effect ends, you don’t suffer the normal effects of the spell ending.

In addition, you can use an action to lay the two weapons down on the ground. When you do, they magically point north before spinning around to align and tell the current time. When they do, 12:00 is always facing north. ___