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Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

Top, bottom, who cares? Not Vampy.

Love me some assertive possessive Tim that wants to play Jason like a piano. Who loves being in charge, and having Jason whimpering beneath him. Love me some Jason that lets Tim take him apart because he trusts him and can be a needy yearner that wants someone to take care of him. Sometimes he wants to be railed until he's begging and in tears. Sometimes he wants to be held down, feel the caress of fingers, the sharp sting of teeth.

But Tim also likes it when Jason gets a bit rough- pins him down, holds him up against the wall. Loves how much bigger than him Jason is. Sometimes he likes not being in charge. Sometimes he wants Jason to turn his brain off- or at least to mush. He likes the stretch and drag as Jason fucks him hard and deep. Jason lives for the noises he makes, likes to box him in, pin him down... sink his teeth in while Tim's breath hitches and he thrashes beneath him, skin flushed and sweat slick. Hear him begging as he bends him in half.

They also both very much enjoy the soft too, 'kay?

If you’ve just started writing fanfiction, the biggest pressure you’ll feel is the need to be "original." But here’s a secret that the best writers; and legends like David Bowie, know: you don’t have to invent everything from scratch. You just have to be a better listener.

Bowie lived by the "Open Ear" philosophy. He wasn't just a creator; he was a constant student of the world. His letters reveal a man obsessed with everything: the next trend, the next obscure book, the next experimental sound. He didn't lock himself in an ivory tower; he treated the entire world as his resource library.

For you, this is the ultimate creative hack: If you want to stop staring at a blank cursor, stop being a picky consumer.

Read the books that bore you. You’ll learn exactly why they don't work, which teaches you how to make your own scenes tighter.

Watch the films that confuse you. When you don't understand the narrative, you’re forced to analyze the structure. What is the director doing to keep your attention? That’s a trick you can steal for your next chapter.

Keep your ears open. Everything you consume—a weird conversation at a cafe, a line from a poem you don't fully get, the aesthetic of a music video: is potential fuel for your story.

You aren't just "reading" or "watching" anymore; you’re collecting ingredients. When you approach your writing as an ongoing, hungry student, you’ll never run out of things to say. Your story becomes a collage of everything that makes you you.

Stay curious, stay hungry, and keep building your collection.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.