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How did my dash know this was actual canon dialogue from The Search For Spock?

11. Is there any scene you can't wait for people to react to when reading? Why?

You pick the fandom.

Thanks! And I'm much relieved to find that I actually DO have something written that I haven't posted yet. My writing process over the last few months has been by and large to mull over it in my head and then fling some words at a document before posting on a chapter-by-chapter basis, so I haven't got a lot of writing that is writing right now. BUT here's something from my American Gods high school AU that got shoved aside in January by other ideas. So, here's probably-the-opening of chapter 3 of 'American Kids':

“Yo! McCabe!” Tech waved at her from his electric unicycle, and hopped off, tucking it under one arm.

“So, what the fuck was that all about earlier?”

Tech stuck his hands in the pockets of his ludicrous pants, and grinned. He looked a little sheepish. “Yeahhhh well, it was worth a try - so, here’s the thing. It’s Sweeney’s birthday on Friday, right? It’s his eighteenth birthday - I know, he’s fucking ancient. Crazy, huh? Anyway, turns out I’m kinda double booked.”

“And - ?”

Tech stared at her a moment, groaned, and leaned in confidentially and way too close. “I’m literally the guy’s only friend.” The gap-toothed little weirdo straightened up and made a face that she would describe as expressive, if she was feeling generous.

Laura, however, was not feeling particularly generous right then. She recalled the message she’d seen about ‘Friday being a no-go’, and with it the image of an extremely crushed Ginger Minge celebrating his legal adulthood as a Billy-No-Mates sophomore. She knew what was being asked of her.

You can put toothbrushes or something in the mug

duck-satellite replied to your post “breaking things”

you gotta smash a plate, or a glass, or something else you don't care about, real quick. these things do come in threes but you can divert the bad luck to a kitchen plate instead of a treasure

subversivegrrl replied to your post “breaking things”

Also, you can put pens in it?

subversivegrrl replied to your post “breaking things”

Two decades since 1997. I know, it's impossible, but it's true.

bedbugsbiting replied to your post “breaking things”

Oh no :(

HOW DID I MISS THAT IT’S TWO DECADES

HOW HAS IT BEEN TWENTY YEARS SINCE I WENT TO NORWAY FOR CHRISTMAS

I mean. I guess. It’s. Yeah. My cousins are dads. That was the 90s. It’s been a while. 

I AM SO OLD

I am so hesitant to smash anything on purpose though, what if it doesn’t work? I’m such a hoarder I can’t think of a single breakable thing that I wouldn’t be super upset to break. I don’t think I can bring myself to smash anything. I’ll just have to wait and see what breaks. 

Hey there! Let’s dive right in.

The first one is theoretically possible but would take a few days. A clot like that needs time to build up. It’s essentially a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), that breaks off.

It wouldn’t affect the heart though... it would affect the lungs. It would break off, go through the heart just fine, but get caught in the pulmonary vasculature. If it’s big enough, it can cause deathyness.

But Number 2 is your better option. You could even have an entry-no-exit against the underside of the arm, and the character’s chest “feels funny” on that side, and we discover that the bullet slid along the humerus into the chest and caused a pneumothorax on that side. Maybe twenty minutes later they’re gasping and a half hour after that they’re dead from a tension pneumothorax?

Can I suggest a number 3 as well? Bullet strikes brachial artery, big messy bleedy-outy. Or maybe it’s a nick, a slow arterial bleed, so the wound looks okay-ish, gets wrapped with big dressings, and then the character basically bleeds to death inside the dressings?

Just thoughts!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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Hello again! I’m still staring at your longer ask; trying to figure out how much I can actually help with and how much is just rule of reality.You’re looking for “as you were.” It’s used in exactly the context you’re looking for. “Next formation time will be zero five -- as you were -- zero six hundred.” The command can be given either immediately as in that example sentence or after the order has been fully issued. One might also say “as I was” when you’ve made a verbal mistake that wasn’t part of a command. “Disregard” has its time and place too, particularly on comms usage, although on comms I’ve also heard “correction.”