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How to Get Rid of Bears: the Canadian way vs. the Russian way.

(Inspired by that video of the man from British Columbia politely asking those bears to leave his yard.)

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I was tagged by the brilliant @whelvenwings (because who else :D) to post the last sentence I wrote. I think I’m then supposed to tag as many people as there are words in the sentence, but I definitely don’t have enough friends on Tumblr to do that xD

Anyway, here we go with the last sentence I wrote:

Then again, you were the one who thought it would be good to spend time with someone who understood the superhero thing, a little voice in her head reminds her.

That’s a line from my current ongoing Spider-Man/Daredevil crossover fic and bane of my life, ‘Street-Level Superheroes’ (which is a sequel to my other fic, ‘How to Be a Superhero Love Interest’) :3 I’ve already started posting it to AO3 because I lack self-control >.>;;

Here’s the last sentence I wrote.  Actually, since I’m lame and have no friends on Tumblr anymore, here’s the whole last snippet I wrote:

“You don’t stand a chance,” Yuri said, blinding grin filling the screen.

He really didn’t Otabek thought as he ended the call.

He really didn’t.

The astonishment faded in the quiet of his apartment, replaced by disappointment.

For a second he’d hoped…

Wished that that little flicker of hope -- that Yuri was skating for him -- could be true.

To celebrate the launch of our Sapphic Book Club and our first read, Enchanters by K.F. Bradshaw, we’re giving away a few of copies of the book! So if you like reading YA fantasy with LGBTQ characters, this is the place for you! This giveaway is open worldwide and there will be 8 winners in total who can win 5 ebooks and 3 hardback copies. Entering is pretty simple too!

Giveaway rules:

must be following @sapphicliterature and @enchantersbooks

reblogging this post enters you in the giveaway (likes won’t count)

for an extra entry write your favorite sapphic book in the tags!

And that’s it! The giveaway ends on October 29th and I will randomly choose and contact the winners by the 31st (so make sure your asks/messages are working). You’ll have a few days to get back to me before I pick someone else.

If you win an ebook I will need your email and if you win a physical copy you have to be comfortable sharing your address, so if you’re under 18 make sure to have your parent or guardian’s permission to do so.

Also, only the book club members are eligible to win a hardback copy so if you’re entering for that please let me know you’re a member in the tags. If you haven’t joined the sapphic book club before I published this, you can still win the ebooks. (but you can still join us! all info here). And if you don’t want to wait for the giveaway, you can always get your own copy here too.

That’s not the right IRS rule.

$599.99 is the amount below which a business does not need to issue a 1099 to a contractor who provides business services. The contractor still needs to report the income on their taxes.

The correct number for the IRS rule for money that is gifted rather than received in a business transaction is $13999.99–more than that, and the recipient has to pay tax on the gift and report it to the IRS. Less than that, and there’s no taxation or reporting requirement.

If we’re choosing amounts on the basis of IRS limits, give these people $13,999.99. 

they come (obviously) from the sherlock holmes fandom, and they are two different ways of explaining something in a story. say I’m a fan and I notice that, in the original books, watson’s war wound is sometimes in his leg and sometimes in his shoulder. the watsonian explanation is how watson (that is, a person within the story) might explain it; the doylist explanation is how sir arthur conan doyle (a person in real life) would have explained it. 

sherlock explains the migrating war wound by making the shoulder wound real and the limp psychosomatic. the guy ritchie films explain it by having the leg wound sustained in battle before the events of the film and the shoulder wound happen onscreen. the doylist explanation, of course, is that acd forgot where the wound was.

this is very important when we’re discussing stuff like headcanons and word-of-god. I see this when people offer watsonian explanations for something, and then a doylist will say something like “it’s just because the author wrote it that way,” and I see it when a person is criticizing bad writing/storytelling (for example, the fact that quiet in metal gear solid v is running around the whole game in a bikini and ripped tights) and someone comes back with “but there’s an in-story reason why that happens!” (that reason being she breathes through her skin).

there’s nothing wrong with either explanation, and really I think you need both to understand and analyze a text. a person coming up with a watsonian explanation has likely not forgotten that the author had real-life reasons for writing something that way, and a person with a doylist interpretation is likely not ignoring the in-universe justification for that thing.