#handbooks

Food is Life. I once stood on a busy street corner in Puebla, Mexico. A market day, a late October morning, battleship-gray skies overhead. I watched women – young, old, rich, poor―lugging string bags or baskets laden with food, hurrying home to cook almuerzo, lunch. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head: Food is life. Life revolves around the growing of food, the eating of it, the cooking…

now i would caution against using handbook ages as sure things bc handbooks are often inconsistent from one to the next, and frankly it seems ridiculous to say clint was 18 when the whole swordsman betrayal went down bc he was previously portrayed as being in his mid-teens for that incident, and subsequent flashback portrayals have him around there as well, and ages for events are mostly based on vibes at some point--but there you go, bc clint never does get an explicitly stated age past "orphaned at 8" (consistently portrayed on-panel) and "ran away to the circus at 14" (age fluctuates between grade schooler and young teen for this).

i would say he should've been at the club but he was. he was at the club.