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This is another one that could fit into either timeline, so, take your pick! Takes place in 1983, sometime fairly soon after the moonwalk debuted and was quickly gaining popularity. Marty is 14 (very nearly 15).
Doc knew many people found him to be eccentric, and they certainly weren’t wrong, but if you asked him, the same could be said of his young friend.
“Mar—”
The sound of a cardboard box being knocked over interrupted him. Thankfully, it sounded like the box filled with old newspapers and not the one filled with various tools and fasteners.
“Sorry, Doc!”
Doc waved the apology away. “Not a worry. I’m ready for your assistance here.”
“Right.”
Marty ran over, taking the small sheet of metal that sat on the work table. He held it in place against a second sheet as Doc carefully measured and then drilled two holes into them.
“Very good,” Doc said, surveying the work. “Thank you.”
Marty smiled. “Yep!”
He took off then, back to the fairly clear area of the garage he’d been in before. He’d been doing this for the better part of a half hour—scurrying off to do, well, Doc isn’t entirely sure what’s happening. Some sort of shuffle. Lots of scuffing his shoes on the floor. A spin every so often.
Doc watched for just a moment, then returned to his work, letting the noise and motion fall to the background. He didn’t mind the commotion; Marty was the type who needed to move.
But he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t terribly curious.
“Marty?”
The movements stopped. “Yeah, Doc?”
“If you don’t mind my asking…what exactly is it that you’re doing?”
The expression that crossed Marty’s face had Doc suspecting the answer should be obvious.
“Practicing my moonwalk.”
That did nothing to clear things up.
“It's a new dance move,” Marty clarified.
“You look like you’re trying to get gum off your shoe.”
Marty looked down at his shoes. Laughed. “Guess I do, huh? But you wait. I’m gonna get good at it.”
Doc was still unsure of what exactly a moonwalk dance entailed or if Marty was even close to it. He nodded anyway. “I’m sure you will.”
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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!
For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!
Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!
I drink two cups of coffee per day not because I have an addiction, but because my body has adapted to the presence of caffeine enough that its absence causes mild but unpleasant side effects.
I reblogged this post not because I liked it and wanted to share it, but because reading it elicited a pleasant sensation that I felt would be appreciated by others
washing dishes is evil because you go "oh fuck there's so many dishes this is gonna take foreverrr" and then you enter the dish abyss and emerge with your abdomen somehow covered in water and your hands all wrinky and then you look at the clock and what felt like half an hour was actually 10 minutes
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Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1.
The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.
they should introduce a feature called king of tumblr so that we can all battle to the death to become court jester to whatever poor sap winds up as king of tumblr
My sister and I were watching Lost but not paying a ton of attention and then suddenly the TV is like "Okay so we're going to have to remove two inches from the width of the island" and we both like snap our heads up like woah we were literally just dealing with a time travel problem why do we need to make the island a little smaller now? But it turns out the dog had laid down on the remote and turned it to Property Brothers so like bad news for whoever's kitchen they're designing but good news i guess for the Lost people for not having to shrink the island
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#and if you don't understand that frodo gollum and boromir are the most important characters in that story i feel like you're missing something
I sometimes find it genuinely alarming when people don't seem to understand what Frodo's role in the story is or why he's like that. I do understand that Frodo's struggle is mostly internal and he's not the POV character and Sam is way more visible and relatable, so I'm not shocked that Sam is generally liked better. but sometimes it goes way beyond 'I prefer the more active and personable character', it's more like Frodo walks into the story 'hello I am a person who is not physically strong taking on a burden much too difficult for any living person because I want to do the right thing but i'm struggling intensely because it's difficult' and people look at that concept- which is not really that complicated!- and go 'what the heck is this? ew'
It's also like... listen, guys. "If Sam had taken the Ring-" the quest would have failed because he would have killed Gollum. I feel like people don't understand that this is a severe flaw of Sam's. He's a nice boy with a good heart but he just does not have pity in his heart until it's too late. Sam's inability to understand why Gollum acts the way he does dooms Gollum's redemption to failure. Unlike Frodo, who perseveres in the (vain) hope that Gollum can be redeemed, Sam does not until near the end of the book - when Gollum attacks the pair on the mountainside, he spares Gollum because, having carried the Ring now, he "dimly" grasps at what it would really mean to be Gollum. It's too late, though, because his earlier mistrust of Gollum has already set him against the hobbits for good.
And I know, the scene where the Ring tempts Sam with being "Lord of the Garden" is funny and awesome, but people forget that A) Sam had been wearing the ring for all of a couple days (compared to Frodo's 17 years in the book), and the Ring was clearly desperate and at the end of its tempting rope. Tolkien himself said that "no-one", not even Sauron himself (if he were inclined to do so), could destroy the ring at Mount Doom. The temptation at the ultimate moment would be too great. In fact, in the initial draft, this is exactly what happens to Frodo - the Ring shows him a vision of him using it to protect and save the hobbits from Sauron, and that's what causes him to finally put it on. (Presumably, Tolkien cut this because it didn't make sense for Frodo to narrate this moment.) So Sam's vision doesn't seem so ridiculous or out there now.
And ultimately, the whole point is that Frodo fails. He gives up everything on this quest he knows he is never going to come back from. He keeps going when it's obvious to him that they're all going to die. He keeps going when it's obvious he's not up to the task and never was. The fact that he only stumbles at the very end should be seen as a testament to his mental fortitude, not a failing. Frodo is all of us. We all love to think we would be Sam, or maybe Bilbo, or maybe Faramir wisely saying "I would not take it if it lay by the roadside" (note how Faramir, the smart guy, refuses to even look at the thing - in fact, notice how all the people who best "resist" the Ring's temptation do it by simply removing themselves as far away as possible from it!). But in reality, we would be Frodo. We wouldn't be up to the task, because who would? Instead, what saves Frodo is not his heroic willpower, but his mercy. Because he took it in his heart to have pity on Gollum, a fellow hobbit corrupted and twisted by the Ring's power (just like Frodo), the creature is there at just the right moment to destroy the ring. That's the message of Lord of the Rings. You have to understand that, right?
I was a Sam apologist when I first read the LotR. I used to say things like "Sam is the real hero of the story". And then I had a bad time in my life. A time when everything that was important to me felt impossibly hard. When the things I had set to myself as goals felt entirely out of reach. When the urge to just give up and admit defeat was overwhelming. And I will always remember my therapist saying,
"Be like Frodo. Keep going, one day at a time, and try. He didn't believe he could succeed either. But he got so much closer than he would if he had accepted defeat, didn't he? And that was important too. Even if he failed at the end"
And you know what? I did. I did try. And I got there. And I understand Frodo now, at least enough to have a huge amount of respect for him.
(Also, I don't think we would be Frodo. I think most of us would not do half as good a job as he did. I think most of us would be Boromir. Or Denethor. At most.)
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