Lances Smile Gives Me A Will To Live

you. you get it.

the article screencapped here is this

https://www.fox9.com/news/the-conditions-3-former-minneapolis-police-officers-charged-in-george-floyd-case-must-meet-to-make-bail

which indicates the officers are still in custody (though one was released on bond)

Something like:  the newly-widowed queen knows she and her daughter won’t be allowed to rule their country themselves, so she has to agree that her daughter be married.  But she wants to ensure that her daughter gets a husband who will treat her well and that her land gets a ruler who will treat it well, so she rigs the game.  

Mercedes Lackey did a most excellent job of this in her 500 Kingdoms book The Sleeping Beauty, where the final challenge of the tournament to win the princess’ hand is to find a way to permanently protect their small but rich country from their many greedy neighbors (the winning concept is brilliant, btw, I grin every time)

I’m thinking also of that neat comic with the witch who says she’ll marry whoever gets the key from around her cat’s neck–but she is also the cat, and the only way to get the key is to befriend her. that’s a really great example and also one of the few I can think of where the person is setting their own bride-price, double credit.

any of those ‘the youngest/weakest wins by being clever’ or ‘the kind one wins by getting help from allies they helped along the way’ stories have potential to qualify, but I want specifically the ones where the person setting the bride-price did it that way on purpose to ensure a clever or kind winner

same for any of those stories where the thing which must be retrieved is incredibly fragile and only a careful, gentle person could retrieve it

or it’s worth a fortune and only an honest, selfless person could pass it up for the quest, y’all get the idea

or, genre-swap:  the mob boss has a handsome, powerful son, and all the other mob leaders keep trying to arrange for their beautiful eligible daughters to cross his path, and the mob boss says instead that the one who brings the most to the table will be allowed to marry their son

this phrasing I like because it’s got two possible subversions! 

1) all the mob-parents keep trying to show off their resources and the boss gets to say ‘no, none of these count unless you’re trying to marry my son. what do your kids have to offer him’ and then whoever’s the most badass all on their own gets to win

or 2) mob-son is actually in love with a nice straight-arrow baker from down the road, who comes and brings a brace of pies literally to the table, and wins on a proper fairytale technicality

she left htis guy for a bee

//YEETS bring another drawing to you live!

At Shiro´s birthday he took Shiro´s shampoo and filled it with vibrant yellow hair dye and cut holes on Shiro´s shirt where his tiddies were meant to show, and smashed an apple against his head.

Shiro used that shirt with pride on his eyes

Keith once played with legos and got a head stuck on his nose, he cried the whole time and Shiro had to help him get it off, Keith was 14.

Shiro recorded it.

Keith was banned from playing with Legos

Adam is a drama queen and gives Keith so much shit, he secretly likes the kid but he will never say it to his face

Adam: Takashi!!! Your demon ate my last taco!!!! I called dibs like 4 times!!! Keith: Shut it old man

Adam: T A K A S H I

Adam has a big fucking ego and Keith will never tell him but he actually loves his cooking, that´s the thing he most missed about in space, and when he comes back Adam prepares him his favorite food without having to ask, they banter the rest of the night but Adam its been so long since Adam smiled this wide.

When Shiro´s mad at Keith he´ll go around and give Keith´s phone number to girls who try to hit on him

Keith does the same but it´s to 60 years old women, joke´s on him because Shiro ends up befriending every single one of them, now they have 6 grandmas

Shiro: keith put on your nice sweatter we´re gonna see grandma Olivia

Keith (latches onto Lance): hey.

Lance: what are you doing??

Keith: I feel lonely. So I decided to latch on to you until I feel better.

Lance: that’s really weird

Keith: sorry I’ll leave