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Day 214

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (12/14)

Story Masterlist

The plum seller at the farmer’s market saves Bucky from being captured for the attack at Vienna that he didn’t commit, but is she really all that she appears to be, or are ulterior motives involved?

This is an entry for @star-spangled-bingo​​​ 2020. Word count: 1374. Square filled: “I’m turning into you. It’s like a horrible dream.”

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Warnings: Cryostasis, some anxiety about the future. Overall, less angsty than the last few chapters lol.

A/N: It’s finally lightening up lmao sorry for putting everyone through all that angst. There are still two more chapters left!

The room is white, clean, and well-lit, and doctors and nurses move about with practised, calm movements. A scene like this, with the location changed to a slightly darker area, might have thrown Bucky into a panic just months prior, but here, he is calm, looking at the woman who brought him to Wakanda in one piece as she talks.

“You sure you want to do this? I bet we could figure something else out,” she is saying, wringing her hands, standing impatiently in front of him. He begins to shake his head but she is already continuing: “We could go into hiding again. You don’t need to go into cryo.”

Bucky smiles up at her. “I wish that was true, honey,” he tells her, the endearment slipping out of his mouth easily. They have been in Wakanda for over a month now, the distinct lack of imminent danger facilitating a warm friendship, one that Bucky is relishing in. He has, slowly, started to reacquaint himself with Steve as well, but, as she is the one who has been on this journey with him, she is the person he is most comfortable around.

Tilting her head, she looks at him with melancholy eyes, sad but hopeful, trying not to let the sorrow seep through. These are the moments when Bucky wishes he didn’t know her quite so well, so he can’t read her like a book. “I’ll visit,” she says, putting on a braver face.

“And watch me while I’m asleep? You creep,” he teases, although he appreciates the thought.

“Like you didn’t do the same when I was down with a GSW,” she scoffs, and Bucky senses a blush rise on his face.

Recovering quickly, he says, “Touché.”

For a while, they consider each other and the room. Princess Shuri is operating a panel that controls the cryostasis chamber set up in the middle of the room. In the hallway overlooking the labratory, T’Challa is leaving Steve after what seems to be a serious conversation to enter and talk to his sister. Steve’s eyes are fixed on where Bucky sits.

She clocks this, and remarks, “Alright, Steve is starting to look impatient. I think he’s getting jealous.”

“Who wouldn’t be jealous of anyone who has the pleasure of my company,” Bucky says, not missing an opportunity to make her laugh, and she does; releases the stress of worrying about Bucky in a chuckle that makes Bucky smile so wide his face aches.

“Don’t make me glad you’re entering a coma,” she teases back. The frown lines have been coming and going in the past few weeks, and they’re absent now, but smile lines crinkle at the corner of her eyes when she grins at him.

He has learnt that she enjoys grinning when she isn’t in life-threatening situations. In the time since she has recovered from her injury, and in between the times Bucky has been planning going back into cryo, he has taken pleasure in relearning her.

He knows that this slice of bliss cannot last forever. Wakanda is a bubble, but only physically. News is constantly filtering in and the United States are not happy about Bucky’s presence in Wakanda, or about the refuge granted to those who failed to comply with the Accords. Bucky has not been able to sit in on all that many intelligence briefings, but the general knowledge is that the Accords themselves are failing to provide accountability, especially considering that half of the known individuals they apply to are refusing to obey them by either operating under their jurisdiction or retiring completely.

Steve has gone out on a few missions since he brought Bucky to Wakanda. Enough of them to inform the world that he is still working, even if no longer under the title of Captain America. America itself has found another thing to divide itself over; are the Accords right or are they not, is Bucky Barnes the longest standing POW who deserves rehabilitation and a hero’s welcome or should he be extradited for crimes of murder and treason?

The woman in front of him has been reassuring him that he is the former. A good man who bad things have happened to, and he’s still trying to convince himself that he deserves this treatment, and people’s help, but it’s hard to believe it. It’s hard to believe that someone as good as her can stand up for him, can have so much faith in him. She’s a good person. A kind woman, he thinks, looking up at her, studying her features with the intent to memorize them. “I’ll miss you,” he says, drawing his eyes over the shape of her eyes, their glistening hue.

“See you soon, Bucky,” she says, leaning down, and kissing his cheek. With a wave, she walks away.

Steve takes her place. “You two are getting along well.” Bucky rolls his eyes, shuffles uncomfortably.

“Shut up, Rogers,” he responds. The lack of the weight of his left arm has left him disbalanced, otherwise he would have stood up to be at eye level with his old friend. That phrase has taken some getting used to, but he’s adjusting.

“I’ll shut up when you talk to her. She’s a keeper, Buck,” Steve tells Bucky, as if he doesn’t already know that. Bucky regrets being readable enough that Steve knows how he feels about her. Steve on his own isn’t so bad, but get him and Wilson in a room together, and they’re all wiggling eyebrows and hidden smirks, while Bucky either sputters or pretends he knows what he is doing with the kind of charm he can scarcely recall.

He has vague memories of victory curls and red lips, dance halls and clicking heels, skirts swishing and small giggles behind small hands. None of those women made butterflies take off in his stomach the way she does.

“I used to be good at talking to ladies, didn’t I?” Bucky says, thinking of the lines he’d drop with winks to punctuate every sentence, honey sweet and charm heavy.

Steve, nods, putting his hands in his pockets, his eyes going somewhere very far away. “And I was the worst,” he reminisces.

“Well then, I’m turning into you. It’s like a horrible dream,” Bucky says, now intentionally pulling forth the same words from a decade ago, in a London bar about to head out for war again. Agent Carter in her red dress, her eyes fixed on Steve, the first time Bucky realized how little Steve needed him now.

Steve must see the memory travelling through Bucky’s mind, because he reminds Bucky that he is still needed.  “I’ll miss you, Buck.”

Bucky doesn’t want him to, so he looks at Steve with an open smile, preparing to bid farewell with another joke. “Don’t be too happy about it. I won’t be gone for long.”

“I’m countin’ on it,” Steve replies. They look at each other for a moment more, and then Princess Shuri is approaching the examination table Bucky is sitting on. There is a tablet in her hands, and she has goggles over her eyes, and she has reassured Bucky that this procedure will be nothing like the last.

He trusts her. She’s an intelligent woman, reminds him of Becca and her dreams to go to the moon, and with that association, there is a sharp ache of grief that always comes with recollections of family members he has lost without knowing, but Bucky concentrates on what he does have. Right now, he has a team of people willing to help.

“Are you ready, Sergeant Barnes?” The princess asks, and Bucky stands, steadying himself with his right hand on the edge of the table behind him, until he is stable enough to stand on his own, and Steve is no longer looking like he wants to offer his arm.

“Yes, Your Highness,” he says to Princess Shuri, and she turns, beginning to guide him to the cryostasis chamber. As he is strapped in, he breathes slow and deep, and just as the glass starts to fog up, he opens his eyes one last time to see his friend waving goodbye. Her eyes are shining, and she is smiling, so Bucky smiles, too.

[tyrantosaurus]

The only time those things matter is when you're making a highly realistic reference drawing. Then it matters what lines do what and what colours it is.

Until then?

I too had to relearn math in order to pass because even as far as grade 10 chemistry, an Academic course level (AP for Americans I think) - My teacher asked me how I knew that to balance the equation of something with 1.25 in it, I had to multiply by four.

I was struck dumb. How do you explain something that your brain just does? 25×4. 100. Simple. Four quarters make a whole. So I froze in front of the entire class and it took me a solid thirty seconds to stutter out that .25 was a quarter. If you treated it like a fraction, it was 1/4 (or because it was 1.25, 5/4) and if you wanted to get rid of the fraction, you just multiplied by the base. They had taught us this in elementary school, and I wasn't expecting to still need to show my work for figuring things like that out.

The only reason I got lucky enough to avoid having to relearn reading and spelling was because due to needing a speech therapist, they had been unable to get a clear answer from me about how I read. (Answer: I just did. Other people could hear properly, so while they learned words that way, I learned how to read.)

Despite that, in grade three, I still had a teacher who sent us home with poster board sized homework that consisted of one question. But in really big letters. The written equivalent of speaking louder to make sure a deaf person could hear you. It does make the lip motions more distinct but it doesn't make them less deaf.

My grade five teacher took myself and all of the other advanced kids and while she taught the others, she had us putting together booklets or materials for lessons. I thought it was cool at first, and it was only when I got older that I realized instead of trying to help us learn more and encourage us, she had been trying to slow us down by keeping us out of lessons that we needed.

Because it was easier for her to deal with us if we were on the same level as everyone else.

I had a French teacher (woo canada) who made fun of me for a solid three minutes, Asking me what Je ne sais pas meant- and then making fun of me when I told him "I don't know" the first time it was kind of funny but he kept repeating it because he wanted everyone in the class to get it and I was the only one who knew that it meant I don't know. I was on the edge of tears when he finally gave up the joke, and at that point, even the people who struggled to understand it had picked up on it long enough ago that no one was laughing but the teacher.

I stopped using my french skills then. I stopped trying to speak in french in class. Because my teacher punished me for knowing an answer he hadn't taught us yet.

And I liked a number of those teachers. Those teachers were the ones who didn't ruin the subject for me forever. Unlike my religion teacher who I swear is half the reason no one from my catholic high school is actively religious anymore.

We can't keep telling children what is and isn't right. We can teach them the known method for finding an answer, but we can't punish them for learning it elsewhere. If you have a hard time believe a kid can do mental math that well- just watch them during the next test and see if they try to cheat or have a calculator. But don't outright tell them they'll fail if they don't show the minutiae that anyone can do. Arithmetic was developed by people who came up with ridiculous ideas because they needed a way that worked for them. Picasso's art became famous because he took apart lines and colour and did what he wanted with them. Shakespeare made up a whole slew of words in order to fill his plays properly, and in doing so, redefined the English language. Beethoven was deaf before he finished composing.

We are not drones, and we have to stop treating each other and our future generations like they are.

Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And it was red, with a green stem. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red, with a green stem.

On another day The teacher said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.” “Good!” thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.

But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacher’s. It was a deep dish.

And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didn’t make things of his own anymore.

Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.

The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.

When she came to the little boy She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?” “Yes,” said the little boy. “What are we going to make?” “I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher. “How shall I make it?” asked the little boy. “Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher. “And any color?” asked the little boy. “Any color,” said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.

~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy

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ENCYCLOPEDIA EXISTENTIÀ

1. Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

2. Abraham Lincoln: In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

3. Albert Einstein: Learn from yesterday, live for today and never stop questioning, curiosity has its own reason for existing.

4. Andrew Sullivan: You can love someone more than you know him, and he can be perfectly loved without being perfectly known. But the more you know a friend, the more a friend he is, friendship is about the complicated enjoyment of human autonomy.

5. Benjamin Franklin: By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.

6. Benjamin Franklin: If you persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.

7. Bertrand Russell: All who are capable of absorption in an inward passion must have experienced at times the strange feeling of unreality in common objects, the loss of contact with daily things, in which the solidity of the outer world is lost, and the soul seems, in utter loneliness, to bring forth, out of its own depths, the mad dance of fantastic phantoms which have hitherto appeared as independently real and living.

8. Bertrand Russell: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

9. Bertrand Russell: Only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren. But marriage with the world is not to be achieved by an ideal which shrinks from fact, or demands in advance that the world shall conform to its desires.

10. Bertrand Russell: The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

11. Bob Dylan: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

12. Bob Dylan: Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

13. Bob Dylan: People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

14. Booker T. Washington: Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

15. C.S. Lewis: In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares about anyone else’s family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history […] Friendship has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

16. C.S. Lewis: Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality […] In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.

17. Cus D’Amato: I believe a man is a professional when he can do what needs to be done no matter how he feels within. An amateur is an amateur in his attitude emotionally. A professional is an professional in the way he thinks and feels and in his ability to execute under the most trying conditions.

18. Cus D’Amato: What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he’s got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward.

19. Dan Dennett: Find something more important than you are, and dedicate your life to it.

20. David Attenborough: An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

21. David Foster Wallace: A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. David Foster Wallace

22. David Olgilvy: Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process.

23. David Olgilvy: Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

24. Debbie Millman: Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.

25. Douglass MacArthur: Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

26. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

27. E.B. White: Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

28. E.B. White: Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

29. E.B. White: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world, this makes it hard to plan the day.

30. Edwin Land: An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

31. Edwin Land: If you dream of something worth doing then simply go work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you think of, detail-by-detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even though the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and [when you] start taking the first ten, and … twenty after that, it is amazing how quickly you get through through the four thousand [nine hundred] and ninety. The last ten steps you never seem to work out. But you keep on coming nearer to giving the world something.

32. Edwin Land: Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

33. Edwin Land: The second great product of Industry should be the rewarding life for every person.

34. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nothing any good isn’t hard.

35. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

36. François-René de Chateaubriand: A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, he simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

37. Friedrich Nietzsche: Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself.

38. Friedrich Nietzsche: No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

39. George Bernard Shaw: Some men see things as they are and ask why? Others dream things that never were and ask why not?

40. George Patton: Do everything you ask of those you command.

41. Henry Adams: Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man.

42. Hugh MacLeod: The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.

43. Joan Didion: We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

44. John Brockman: The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.

45. John Lennon: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

46. John Lennon: The artists role [in society] is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not to tell people how to feel as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of all of us.

47. John Lennon: The more I see the less I know for sure.

48. Lao Tzu: A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

49. Mark Twain: Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

50. Mark Twain: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

51. Mark Twain: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

52. Mark Twain: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

53. Mark Twain: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

54. Mary Oliver: Artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary. Such work does not refute the ordinary. It is, simply, something else. Its labor requires a different outlook — a different set of priorities […] creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging through the wilderness of creation who does not know this — who does not swallow this — is lost. He who does not crave that roofless place eternity should stay at home. Such a person is perfectly worthy, and useful, and even beautiful, but is not an artist.

55. Mary Oliver: There is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.

56. Michelangelo: Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it’s the job of the sculptor to discover it.

57. Milton Berle: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

58. Muhammad Ali: I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

59. Neil Gaiman: Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over.

60. Paul Graham: Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like […] Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you’ll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first […] Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige.

61. Peter O’Toole: I shall not be a common man, I shall stir the smooth sands of monotony.

62. Peter Thiel: You are not a lottery ticket.

63. Plato: What is honored in a country will [ultimately] be cultivated there.

64. Rainer Maria Rilke: Avoid providing material for the drama, that is always stretched tight between parent and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend Don’t ask for any advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

65. Rainer Maria Rilke: I know no advice for you save this: to go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it.

66. Rainer Maria Rilke: Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you, for those who are near you are far away […] And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend.

67. Raymond E. Feist: Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

68. Sharon Lebell: The wisest among us appreciate the natural limits of our knowledge and have the mettle to preserve their naiveté […] Clear thinking and self-importance cannot logically coexist.

69. Sharon Lebell: This is our predicament: Over and over again, we lose sight of what is important and what isn’t. We crave things over which we have no control, and are not satisfied by the things within our control. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

70. Sharon Lebell: Virtue is our aim and purpose. The virtue that leads to enduring happiness is not a quid pro quo goodness (i.e. I’ll be good “in order to get something”). Goodness in and of itself is the practice and the reward […] One cannot pursue one’s own highest good without at the same time necessarily promoting the good of others.

71. Socrates: An unexamined life is not worth living.

72. Socrates: Know thyself.

73. Socrates: The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

74. Steve Jobs: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

75. Steve Jobs: Stay hungry. Stay Foolish.

76. Steve Jobs: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

77. Steven Johnson: Chance favors the connected mind.

78. Susan Sontag: Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example — for courage is as contagious as fear.

79. Susan Sontag: The beginning of wisdom, and humility, is to acknowledge, and bow one’s head, before the thought, the devastating thought, of the simultaneity of everything, and the incapacity of our moral understanding.

80. Tacitus: Success has 1,000 fathers, failure is an orphan.

81. Theodore Roosevelt: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

82. Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

83. Thomas Edison: Vision without execution is hallucination.

84. Truman Capote: A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

85. Vera John-Steiner: In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding.

86. Viktor Frank: Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom […] Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

87. Viktor Frank: Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

88. Viktor Frank: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

89. Virginia Woolf: Life is a dream. ’Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

90. William Blake: No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

91. William Blake: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

92. William Blake: The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.

93. William Blake: To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

94. William Blake: What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men, that which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

95. William Shakespeare: Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

96. William Shakespeare: Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

97. William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

98. William Shakespeare: What’s past is prologue.

99. Winston Churchill: All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

100. Winston Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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How are they performing this?

These are accessing MOOCs, or Substantial Open up Online Classes. Although platforms have already been obtainable from elite colleges like MIT and Stanford for almost ten years, open up-supply courses continue to increase in quantity and recognition. Now, even some local people colleges like Wake Complex Faculty,Positioned outside Raleigh, NC, offers MOOCs to a worldwide viewers. This developing availability means There may be now an unbelievable variety of classes available to everyone having an internet connection, no matter location.

Matters MOOCs cover can differ from fashionable robotics and astronomy to Roman architecture and also the American Novel Given that 1945. MIT, by way of example, has lessons centered all around Mathematics, Engineering, Vitality and Science, in addition to a surprising range of courses concentrating on the Humanities and Fantastic Arts. The College of Michigan delivers programs ranging from "Storytelling for Social Modify" to Python, knowledge analytics, and machine Mastering. You can also consider Management classes from HEC Paris by using MOOC, rated by The Economist as having the second most powerful small business university alumni community on earth.

Some MOOCs are intended to be taken for expertise obtained, but lots of applications also give a certification of completion by way of sites like Coursera.org. Certificates of completion--that are distinctive from program credits--usually Expense all-around $fifty. Financial assist is offered for those who qualify.

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There are lots of main reasons why a MOOC course could be best for you outside of time administration, Whilst most MOOCs make it possible for learners to operate at their very own pace, which implies they conveniently in shape into most schedules, Regardless of how occupied. Other pros consist of:

A chance to Check out A significant ahead of paying out for school courses. Anybody trying to decide on a job path, for The very first time or thanks to a midlife adjust of direction, is familiar with the aggravation of questioning "Let's say I'm Improper about my choice? The amount money am I heading to invest right before I recognize this isn't for me?" MOOCs are a terrific way to 'dip your toes' in, so to speak, before the headache of dealing with common university courses and common faculty fees. It is possible to Check out as quite a few classes when you have time for until eventually something really sparks your curiosity.

Get programs not offered regionally. There are actually actually A large number of MOOC lessons offered on-line. Even if you reside in Boston (the place Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Boston College or university and Boston University are all Positioned) or A few other equivalent College-dense location, you could likely locate a category or two through MOOC offerings not accessible to you locally.

Master (or relearn) a language without spending a dime. Not simply can you are taking a overseas language course without cost through MOOCs, but as a result of courses taught at foreign universities, You can even teach your ear by listening to native speakers. Have a program taught in the language you would like to study and comply with along using English subtitles. The next strategy is a great way to in essence double your Finding out, but only is effective if you have already got at the least an intermediate grasp in the language.

If Finding out A further language is just not substantial with your to-do checklist, probably it ought to be: In 2017, New American Economy described employer demand from customers for bilingual personnel more than doubled given that 2010. This demand from customers carries on to increase. Most effective languages to review? Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.

Establish up your resume with needed competencies. Probably there is a superior occupation at do the job you recognize you can do, but your boss will not Imagine you might be skilled for it because you lack specified capabilities. MOOCs are a terrific way to come to be proficient in regions like HTML coding, Web optimization analytics, or regardless of what skill you should turn into the proper man or woman for your occupation.

Adhere to the one-way links in this article To learn more on numerous MOOC programs. MOOCs may also be obtainable as a result of a number of academic platforms, including Coursera, Udemy, and edX. But MOOCs can be accessed instantly as a result of Each individual College, and can be found by utilizing the next Google look for restricting syntax entered into your google look for bar:

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As an example, if I enter website:edu MOOC robotics, I get about seven,000 outcomes, including this Introduction to Robotics Specialization from Penn Engineering. By using this syntax, you are able to usually bypass the clearinghouses and find precisely what You are looking for on College web sites, even courses the clearinghouses might not give.

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With cloud facilitating it has become Substantially more simple with the organizations to work cooperatively devoid of investing off the safety element. Additionally, working with the cloud give nonstop accessibility of the data from any distant corner of the globe. Accordingly, the interest for just a bookkeeper acquiring specialised abilities would be the best choice in excess of the group.

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Smarts tend to be the individuals who can fathom the information, nevertheless much more astute are those who might make it getting used. To analyze the knowledge and to consider a plausible arrangement, it is important with the bookkeepers to find out the intricate aspects of the information. Getting Each one of these aptitudes is likely to make you aware with the existing interest in the purchasers and clients. Grasping the innovation and embellishment of our arrangement of qualities According to the need of enough time is going to help.

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How are they undertaking this?

They are accessing MOOCs, or Massive Open up On-line Programs. While platforms happen to be readily available from elite colleges like MIT and Stanford for nearly ten years, open up-supply classes carry on to grow in number and recognition. Now, even some area people colleges like Wake Specialized Faculty,Found outside Raleigh, NC, offers MOOCs to a global viewers. This escalating availability usually means There's now an incredible range of classes available to everyone having an Connection to the internet, regardless of location.

Subjects MOOCs protect can differ from modern day robotics and astronomy to Roman architecture along with the American Novel Considering that 1945. MIT, for example, has lessons centered close to Mathematics, Engineering, Vitality and Science, as well as a astonishing range of courses specializing in the Humanities and High-quality Arts. The College of Michigan features classes ranging from "Storytelling for Social Adjust" to Python, knowledge analytics, and machine Discovering. You can also consider Management lessons from HEC Paris by using MOOC, ranked through the Economist as having the second most powerful business enterprise university alumni network on earth.

Some MOOCs are intended to be taken for awareness obtained, but several plans also give you a certification of completion via web pages like Coursera.org. Certificates of completion--that are different from course credits--usually cost around $fifty. Money aid is offered for individuals who qualify.

Reasons to think about a MOOC

There are numerous reasons why a MOOC course might be right for you beyond time administration, Though most MOOCs make it possible for college students to work at their very own pace, which implies they conveniently match into most schedules, no matter how occupied. Other advantages consist of:

A chance to try out A serious in advance of shelling out for college courses. Any person striving to make your mind up on a vocation path, for The very first time or on account of a midlife modify of course, knows the stress of wanting to know "Let's say I'm Mistaken about my preference? The amount money am I likely to spend in advance of I comprehend this is not for me?" MOOCs are a terrific way to 'dip your toes' in, so to speak, ahead of the headache of working with common university classes and standard faculty costs. You'll be able to Check out as quite a few courses while you have enough time for until eventually one thing genuinely sparks your curiosity.

Take courses not accessible domestically. There are actually basically Countless MOOC classes out there on the internet. Even when you are in Boston (where Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Boston College and Boston University are all Situated) or Several other very similar College-dense locale, you could possibly come across a category or two through MOOC choices not accessible to you domestically.

Discover (or relearn) a language for free. Not only can you are taking a foreign language course without cost by using MOOCs, but thanks to lessons taught at overseas universities, you can also educate your ear by Hearing indigenous speakers. Take a program taught from the language you should study and abide by along utilizing English subtitles. The second approach is a terrific way to in essence double your Understanding, but only functions if you have already got not less than an intermediate grasp in the language.

If Discovering A further language just isn't significant in your to-do list, possibly it ought to be: In 2017, New American Economic climate noted employer need for bilingual workforce much more than doubled considering that 2010. This demand proceeds to grow. Ideal languages to review? Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.

Develop up your resume with desired skills. It's possible there's a superior job at work you already know you are able to do, but your boss won't Feel you might be competent for it because you deficiency certain techniques. MOOCs are a great way to become proficient in locations like HTML coding, Web optimization analytics, or whatsoever ability you'll want to grow to be the right person for your task.

Stick to the inbound links in this post To learn more on several MOOC classes. MOOCs are offered through a variety of educational platforms, which include Coursera, Udemy, and edX. But MOOCs could be accessed specifically by way of Just about every College, and can be found by utilizing the next Google look for limiting syntax entered into your google lookup bar:

web site:edu MOOC issue

For example, if I enter web site:edu MOOC robotics, I get about 7,000 final results, such as this Introduction to Robotics Specialization from Penn Engineering. By making use of this syntax, you can usually bypass the clearinghouses and obtain exactly what you're looking for on university web sites, even lessons the clearinghouses might not give.

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Along with the progression of innovation, it's got gotten crucial that you persistently discover, unlearn, and relearn to extinguish the thirst of grave obstacle. In distinction to customary time, the exercise of bookkeepers isn't really constrained to maintaining thick registers. With robotization, the thought of handbook bookkeeping has grown to be an outsider term and now, an enormous bit of bookkeeping operate could be handled bookkeeping programming, as an example, QuickBooks programming.

In this blog site, we will talk about a portion of the numerous specialised ability and talents to become a expert Accountant now and continuously:

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At The purpose once we speak about the bookkeeping contacting, we must always take into consideration elementary talents, for instance, getting the vital information on the bookkeeping contacting. In almost any situation, presently your situation has become improved and folks are alluding applicants having the ability to burrow further to have a gander in the slightest degree viewpoints in the quantities and the information just as spotting patterns and examples to be aware of the story within. Be that as it could, this potential can't be grown medium-expression. That is a form of sensitive aptitudes that you can master about a timespan, by efficiently in search of knowledge Using the get the job done. Versus doing things that ring a bell, endeavor to think about ingenious and out on the container arrangements. Look into, evaluate, and think when you practical experience an issue to concoct one of the most achievable and innovative preparations.

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As indicated by Entrepreneur.com, cloud bookkeeping will probably be launched in around 90% businesses. Mechanization has gotten inalienably fundamental to assist inside the company. With innovation, one example is, the cloud, it's presently very simple to understand the unpredictable details also to get to them from anyplace in the world with scarcely any snaps. The cloud has become The latest pattern with the bookkeeping enterprise.

With cloud facilitating it is now A great deal easier for that businesses to work cooperatively without having trading off the security variable. Also, dealing with the cloud give nonstop accessibility of the data from any remote corner of the planet. Appropriately, the curiosity for the bookkeeper getting specialized qualities will be the suitable preference in excess of the team.

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You must have the option to liaise with diverse divisions, buyers and The purchasers. For this, bookkeepers are envisioned to have strong relational skills, by way of example, client the executives, arrangement aptitudes, compassion, and so forth.

Presently, the exercise from the bookkeepers are not limited for the calculating, it features customary gatherings with gurus, buyers, and associates to suit their preferences. With this method, owning Each one of those abilities will consist of inside the do the job efficiency and accomplishment of the bookkeeper. As an example, it really is prescribed to not use interior abbreviations or specialised language whilst responding to inquiries of The shoppers. Obtaining fantastic relational aptitudes will construct strong connections and to hold shoppers and to draw in new clientele. This can be a major aptitude to possess.

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A person such millennial who knocked my socks off was this young Woman named Anushka, a teenager in her early twenties. Her white t-shirt with "MILLENNIAL" in major, black, Daring letters just caught our quick focus and we could not prevent contemplating her Exclusive Expertise Presentation, listed here at Nirmiti Academy. The Do it yourself (Do It By yourself) Craft was her unique talent. She represented a young experience with the millennials. In addition, it absolutely was her presentation that spoke additional of her being a millennial. She was a real go-getter when it came to present her distinctive talent in a unique way. We could see her beaming with delight and happiness to showcase her exclusive expertise to Many others. She was so enthusiastic that she was conversing a mile a minute. She had a great deal of to say over it and she could go on and on and hold us glued to her presentation. The millennials like Anushka and plenty of Some others are determined to operate on matters which fascination them. At the same time, I could also see her getting unable to smile and present herself Fortunately. Long gone would be the moments for your millennials where by they really feel present and revel in their surroundings. They are really the era who experience the regular want for virtual attention which leads them to overshare their life and times on social websites or go inward in deep conscience to search out by themselves. This leaves them unconnected Using the Actual physical environment all around them.

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With the progression of innovation, it's gotten essential to persistently learn, unlearn, and relearn to extinguish the thirst of grave problem. In contrast to customary time, the exercise of bookkeepers just isn't constrained to keeping up thick registers. With robotization, the thought of handbook bookkeeping is becoming an outsider expression and now, an infinite bit of bookkeeping operate is often addressed bookkeeping programming, one example is, QuickBooks programming.

In this weblog, We are going to discuss a percentage of the numerous specialized capability and abilities to become a specialist Accountant now and regularly:

Essential Imagining

Source: magnapubs.com

At the point once we take a look at the bookkeeping calling, we should contemplate fundamental qualities, such as, having the crucial information on the bookkeeping contacting. In almost any circumstance, presently the situation has actually been adjusted and folks are alluding applicants being able to burrow further more to take a gander whatsoever viewpoints of your figures and the data just as recognizing patterns and illustrations to learn the Tale inside of. Be that as it could, this capacity cannot be developed medium-phrase. That is a sort of delicate aptitudes that one can understand more than a timespan, by means of effectively in search of facts With all the function. Rather than undertaking things which ring a bell, try to think of ingenious and out of the container preparations. Investigate, assess, and Assume if you knowledge an issue to concoct one of the most achievable and modern preparations.

Obtain Technical Expertise

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As indicated by Entrepreneur.com, cloud bookkeeping will be introduced in more than 90% businesses. Mechanization has gotten inalienably fundamental to assist within the company. With innovation, for instance, the cloud, it is now very simple to understand the unpredictable info and also to get to them from anyplace in the world with hardly any snaps. The cloud has grown to be the most recent pattern for your bookkeeping enterprise.

With cloud facilitating it has grown to be Considerably less difficult for that companies to operate cooperatively with no investing off the safety factor. Furthermore, working with the cloud give nonstop accessibility of the information from any distant corner of the whole world. Appropriately, the curiosity for your bookkeeper having specialized skills would be the great alternative above the group.

Info on Federal government Guidelines

Resource: Financial Categorical

Thanks to differed new and reconsidered pointers, The work of bookkeepers has additionally modified. From the calendar year 2020, realizing the stray parts of these progressions will get principal for bookkeepers. As indicated by specialists inside the bookkeeping business, new authorities policies and compliances is going to be consistently actualized to advance straightforwardness in organization. In this way it will be much simpler with the bookkeepers to obtain the knowledge on new and existing government procedures and guidelines. Consequently, it is usually recommended to makeover your latest mastery time permitting, and to boost a critical most popular placement in excess of Many others.

Relational Techniques

Supply: Jarvee

You ought to have the choice to liaise with distinct divisions, investors and the customers. For this, bookkeepers are expected to have good relational skills, one example is, buyer the executives, arrangement aptitudes, compassion, and so forth.

Presently, the exercise with the bookkeepers are certainly not restricted on the calculating, it consists of customary gatherings with gurus, clients, and associates to suit their Choices. On this fashion, acquiring every one of those talents will include while in the operate performance and accomplishment of a bookkeeper. Such as, it really is prescribed to not make the most of interior abbreviations or specialized language while responding to inquiries of the customers. Acquiring great relational aptitudes will construct strong connections and to hold consumers and to draw in new purchasers. This is often a substantial aptitude to possess.

Details Analytics

Resource: brilliant information combination

Smarts will be the people who can fathom the data, nonetheless more astute are the ones who can make it being used. To analyze the knowledge and to consider a plausible arrangement, it is vital for that bookkeepers to be aware of the intricate particulars of the data. Getting Each one of those aptitudes can make you mindful on the current fascination from the clients and customers. Grasping the innovation and embellishment of our arrangement of capabilities as per the necessity of some time will support.

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The Blade of Marmora Will Be With You - part 3

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Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Characters: Keith, Lance, Pidge, others.

Pairings: If you squint. Still gen if you don’t want to.

Chapter summary: Keith begins to let things slip. This could have been a lot worse than it actually ends up being.

...

He had to admit - keeping watch over a hangar of Galra drones and fighters that weren't going anywhere anytime soon as long as they did what they'd come here for and Lance's plan actually worked, was pretty damn boring. 

He could work with boring, though. He'd essentially relearned the baby-step basics of how to fly from the ground up, and he wouldn't have even bothered if he couldn't be patient. So maybe it could be improved on, but-

More beeps and assorted other noises from the system that suggested that all Lance was doing was hitting a bunch of random buttons just to see if it did anything at all. 

"What," he asked, losing that tightly held grip on his precious patience, "do you even think you're doing over there?"

Bzzt, went the console again, refusing... whatever it was that Lance had apparently tried.

"I don't know what I'm doing here," Keith rolled his eyes. Well, that part's obvious. "It's all Galra gibberish."

He blinked. Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. I guess the tables have turned since being on Earth.

"Well, of course it is. What, you think they'd just put everything in some kind of Galactic Basic? It's not like we can understand anything on the Castle either. That's all in Altean." Nevertheless, he started moving over toward the console and Lance, trying to not make himself an obvious target if he was spotted from the outside. "Here, let me have a look. Before it starts thinking you're an escaped Balmeran or something," he added under his breath.

"Hey, I heard that!" Lance, now affronted, started poking the air in front of his face. 

Well, that controls the air con, I think this one's got something to do with the tannoy, that one there's  connected to the- oh. Of course it was the big one at the top all along. Of course it was.

"Keith, what did you mean? Was that you being serious, or you trying to have me on, because right now we don't have time for-"

He put his hand on the print, finding relief in the fact that the hangar doors immediately started to close, but Lance kept on his ramble of trying to figure out where the insult had been.

"I wasn't trying to- I was being serious, all right? The Empire doesn't let anyone other than Galra into their ranks, so they make sure their equipment is bio-locked, so prisoners and non-Galran rebels can't-"

He cut himself off, his head turning slowly, eyes locked onto his hand, which was still resting against the console. The hangar doors were still obediently closing.

Lance was staring at him, eyes wide and confused. 

"Shit."

Their Blue Paladin might be a dumbass sometimes, but he wasn't stupid. He'd even just proven that by coming up with this plan in the first place.

C'mon, breathe. Let's just deal with one thing at a time. As long as Lance didn't choose to broadcast what'd just happened to the rest of the team over their comms and leave him there. It wasn't as though there was even all that much love between them in the first place. He'd tried - really, he had. 

But he couldn't make something work. He couldn't make people trust him.

"They're drawing us into an ambush, but we don't have a choice if we want to save Shay." Their helmets suddenly started carrying Shiro's voice. "We have to follow. Lance, Keith - get to the core. I think we're gonna need everyone together to get through this firefight."

Keith held his breath, watching as the doors closed the last few inches or so.

"Copy that, we're on our way!"

And they were alone again - at least, as much as they ever were on a mission. The others were only a shout away, but given they weren't trying to get through, they weren't listening.

"Lance, I-"

"Later, all right?" And there's something in Lance's eyes that says that there will be a later. That he isn't just dropping the issue. "Right now we've got a Balmera to save."

He nods mutely, not fully trusting his voice, and slashes at the console - both to make sure that nothing can re-open the doors while they're gone, and to get rid of the one piece of damning evidence he can actually destroy.

...

He keeps expecting it to come up.

There's the fact that Galrans are the ones to blame for the state the Balmera is in, the doors that trap them in, forming Voltron and having the worry in the back of his mind that Lance is going to not want to when he knows that someone on the team is Galran. 

None of it happens. It reaches the point where they're back on the castle and having a meal of food goo, and still Lance hasn't said anything.

...

Allura and Coran say that the repairs to the castle should take a few more days at least before it's safe to do more than just float at a pace he could've matched the speeder he'd built himself back home, and although that's great for being able to wind down after the non-stop stress of the past few days, Keith also wishes that things would happen faster.

Whenever he sees Lance in the corridors, or at mealtimes, or in training, he just remembers the look on his face when he'd realised what Keith had been saying, and the fact that at some point, it was going to come back to bite him.

He saw Lance meeting his eyes, saying Later, all right? as his eyes closed before he could sleep, and woke up from nightmares where 'later' had been forgotten, everyone knowing already and talking about him as if he weren't even there as they made plans to head a raid on a Galran base - the base of the Blade - his home-

He throws off his sheets, gasping for air, just about able to remind himself that even it wasn't true of any of the others, Shiro at least knew of the Blade, and that Keith had family there. Shiro wouldn't let that sort of thing happen.

...

He's fighting the gladiator again, the rhythm of movement and the need to react and not think being enough to force himself to focus on something other than his latest mess up. Fighting was like that - you couldn't think of anything else, or the next thing you knew, you'd be flat on the floor. 

It was a lot like the way they formed Voltron, really - they had to be focused. In the moment. 

He rushed again, bayard clashing against the blade the gladiator wielded and sending shockwaves up his arm from the angle he'd been hit at, but a few more strikes and he's run the thing through, watching as it dissolves back into the training room floor.

The last thing he expects to see when he looks up is Lance, leaning against the wall by the door, watching him with an unreadable expression.

He can't quite stop a sigh from escaping as he dismisses his weapon - the last thing he wants is anyone thinking he needs to be armed to have a discussion like this.

"So. Um. I guess now's 'later', then."

Lance blinks, owlishly. 

"Huh? Later what? I don't- oh. Oh. That later."

"Don't tell me you forgot-"

"I'll have you know I did not forget! Absolutely not! There was just a lot going on and then we had to be Voltron and save the day and then-" Lance deflated. "Okay, fine, so I forgot a bit. Sometimes. But it's not like you can blame me. And the rest of the time, I was trying to figure out when would be a good time to ask something like, 'Oh, hi, Keith, about that one time you started saying weird things like how maybe you're an alien.' Yeah. That would've gone down really well."

It was as though something had been out of balance, and now the world had righted itself. It was as though the tension from the past few days, the paranoia, the feeling of impending doom, had washed away. 

"You know, for a while there, I'd forgotten I was dealing with you."

"I have a distinct feeling you weren't thinking nice thoughts about me," Lance says with a hunch of his shoulders, expression caught somewhere between attempting to imitate a kicked puppy and being stern, and not succeeding too well at either, "and to be honest, I'm insulted, Keith. Deeply insulted. What did you think I was gonna do, tell Shiro and have you kicked off the team?"

"Shiro.... Shiro already knows."

"And you somehow decided it was a great idea to, what? Not tell anyone else? Or am I the last to know. Like with pidge being a girl."

Keith blinked. Shook his head. 

No, this is definitely Lance I'm dealing with here. 

"What are you even on about? Shiro, and now you - you're the only ones who know. I just spent several days not knowing what you were going to do with that, so if you could maybe not start broadcasting it to everyone else on the castle now?!"

Lance's eyes grew wide at something he'd said - or maybe all of it, how was he to know what went on in Lance's head - and this time, the puppy dog impression was a fair bit more spot on, though at least he also looked less kicked this time, too.

"Really? No one else knows?"

"Well, would you like to be the one who tells Allura?" He shifted his feet, his arms coming up to cross in front of his chest defensively at the various memories that said 'telling Allura is a bad idea' that kept coming back to haunt him. "Or Pidge. Who had her family taken from her. Or Hunk - you saw what he was like heading back to the Balmera. We all did. For that matter, you nearly died not all that long ago because of the Empire, I don't get why you're not more-"

Lance held his hands up, stopping him mid-sentence.

"Okay, okay - I get it. You're freaking out. And, uh, not entirely without reason. Allura's scary. Actually, yeah, so's Pidge. So maybe - just maybe - you have a point. A bit of a point. But-"

"Guys." Pidge's voice carried over from the control area overlooking the training room, making them both jump. Keith thought that either his heart had just stopped for a moment or he was going to puke. "Although it's great seeing you not at each others' throats, I need to run some experiments on the tech here and if you're done training or whatever it is you're doing, you're in my way."

...

Things are more or less back to normal by the time they're all together again to eat in what's something like an approximation of evening in Earth time. Or, to be more precise, what was becoming more and more like a mix between Earth and Altean time slices, which- it was definitely weird realising that what he'd always thought was a universal Galran system was actually Altean. 

Then again, maybe not so weird. Zarkon had warped just about everything else, after all.

"Is it just me," Hunk says at the table between bites, "or is Keith looking better today?"

He blinks, spoon halfway to his mouth, wondering where that had come from.

"Y'know, you're right. He does look less jumpy today."

"I- I haven't been jumpy."

Hunk puts an arm around his shoulders, only making him more confused, not less. He tried to send a look at Lance to see if he had any idea what was going on, but Lance either didn't notice, or wasn't being cooperative. 

"Dude, it's okay. We've all been on edge since we nearly got blown to pieces by weird laser lizard thing that wouldn't die. It'd be weird if we weren't."

Oh, he realised. That's what they think it is. 

"Uh, yeah. Thanks. It... was something like that. Definitely."

...

"So." Lance is sat cross-legged on his bed, with his shoes off and leaning forward with his elbows on his knees to look up at Keith, who's leaning against the wall opposite him, arms crossed and frowning. "Let me get this straight. Not only are you not human, but you're Galran," he says, starting to tick off the points on his fingers, "you belong to some super secret rebel cell, and you were sent to Earth on a mission. A mission involved you and Blue. And other than me, Shiro's the only one who knows. Is that everything?"

Keith sighed. He hadn't wanted to give up all of that information so easily, and especially not to Lance, but somehow Lance was good at dragging things out of him - piece by piece if he had to, apparently - and picking up on slips of the tongue that weren't as obvious as the one he'd made back on the Balmera.

"Pretty much, yeah."

Silence falls for a few precious, awkward ticks, and then Lance shrugs, looking away slightly. 

"I guess that explains how you knew how to find Blue back then out in the desert, huh. You'd already had some kind of connection."

He shifts against the wall, frown turning into one of confusion. 

"I knew where Blue was because I'd landed her there, remember? Yeah, there was a bit of something left, but mainly I was just playing it up to get you guys to follow me. And hoping we could find a way back in. Because of the rockfall."

"Oh, right." Keith can't help but roll his eyes with a smile at the slow realisation of the obvious. "Well, uh..."

Lance scratches at his head, looking serious for a change, which actually makes him worry, for a moment.

"What?"

"Just - thanks, I guess?" Keith blinks, and Lance continues. "I mean, apparently if you weren't there and you hadn't done what you did, we wouldn't have Blue. Blue and I would never have met. So, thanks. For saving and looking after her."

This time it was his turn to shrug and look away, although partly it was to hide the fact that his face was turning red.

"I was just doing my job. There's no reason to thank me for that."

"Psh. That's what you say. I'm entitled to my own opinion. And my opinion right now says 'thank you'."

"Oh. Well, uh... you're welcome?"

"That's better," Lance says, giving him a half-smile, half-smirk that he finds himself far more comfortable with than the serious look from before. It was closer to what he'd come to think of as 'normal' without even realising.

...

As much as it is a relief to not have to hide himself from even just one other person, it causes as many problems as it fixes. Though given how easily he'd slipped up with Lance, things could have gone much worse than walking in on Pidge as she's trying to decode some of the logs she'd been able to download from the ship she and Shiro had investigated back on Arus.  

"Pidge, what... what are you doing."

"Trying to figure out where they keep the logs on prisoners. Given I haven't exactly had a lot of free time to do this since grabbing what we could off the system. First there was that Myzax thing, then there was Sendak and Lance nearly getting killed, and then there was the Balmera, and then there was Coran getting held hostage. Or should I say, pretending to be held hostage. Not that I don't appreciate the training, or saving people, but I really don't have time for fake hostage situations when my family's still out there."

He sighed, watching as she continued to work on the glowing computer screen, hunched over it. He'd figured that much out. He'd known what her personal mission was at the same time as she'd told Shiro, after all, and it wasn't like any of them'd had much of a real rest.

"No, I meant... what is that. You're not going to get far learning about prisoners if you're looking at the captain's log."

Pidge blinked, turned to look up at him from where he'd angled himself in order to point at the screen, and then blinked again.

"How... do you know that? I don't know that. How do you know that?"

He stared, until looking back at the screen, silently hoping for something he could use as an excuse.

"Uh. That word there? It keeps repeating. Which probably means it's either important or common. But because it's literally all over this page, and it's usually followed only by specific words, so..." She was still staring at him, which if he was honest, was making him worried. Not that he could admit that. But she was the smartest one of the entire group. He shrugged awkwardly, backing away. "What can I say? I've had to be good at picking up languages."

Like, for instance, picking up that humans have more than one to begin with, and figuring out how to sound fluent in English, and then realising I'd accidentally started learning Korean instead at one point. 

That, as well as the way he'd modelled his glamour after a ridiculous amount of trial and error, had left a lot of people finding it easy to assume he was some kind of mixed race. He hadn't exactly said he wasn't, thinking that anything that many people made up about his past was probably more believable than anything he could come up with on his own.

"Keith. Please. You have to help me. I can create a program to translate and even hack into the Galran servers, but if you help me, I can finish it in like, half the time. And it'll be even better."

He hesitates. Unsure if this is a good idea, because if he says something wrong - hell, if he recognises something he really shouldn't if he's just finding patterns - then it could spell trouble. A lot of trouble.

But she's looking at him like that, and he's reminded again of the kids he'd grown up with who'd lost parents and siblings to the Empire themselves. The way he'd been, when his father had gone the first time. When Shiro had disappeared.

He sighed, and collapsed onto the sofa next to her.

"All right, fine. Count me in."

...

He's woken up a few quintants later in the middle of the night by the unmistakable sound of someone being in his room, and it's reflex that has him reaching under his pillow for his Marmora blade, ready to defend himself just on the off chance that they had an intruder.

It isn't an intruder, he realises when his eyes adjust to the lights that have come on. It's just Lance. 

Lance, still in the Altean pyjamas and Blue Lion slippers he wore to bed. 

Keith groaned. And put his knife away again.

"Sorry," he hears Lance mumble out. "Couldn't sleep."

"What, so you decided you'd interrupt my sleep? Gee. Thanks." It wasn't like he could tell Lance to just go away, though. Tempting though it might be. "What's wrong."

Half sat up on one elbow, he watches blearily as Lance slides softly onto the floor, eyes on the ceiling. 

"Have you ever wondered what it'd be like if you just - disappeared? If everything'd be the same, but you're not there?"

Okay, maybe that's more than a little concerning. Especially coming from Lance. 

"People go missing all the time, and they're always missed somehow, Lance. I knew people back at base. They'd go, and sometimes they never came back at all, and life went on, and... yeah, I miss 'em sometimes. What brought this on, anyway?"

He sees an odd shoulder movement that he can only assume is still meant to be a shrug.

"Coran didn't even notice I was gone when I got stuck in that freezing cold cryotube. He was all like, 'why did you want to go and do that for, that wasn't very smart of you'." Lance's imitation of Coran was tempered somewhat by his obviously bleak mood, and the fact that he was probably still half asleep himself. "And then I was nearly sucked out into space. It made me think."

"It's the middle of the night, Lance. No one thinks straight in the middle of the night."

He had a feeling he should probably say something else, but it's hard enough just focusing on staying awake, let alone trying to figure out what to say when he doesn't even think he'd know how to deal with the situation when he wasn't half asleep.

Time ticks on. He starts to wonder if Lance is planning on sleeping on his floor, which isn't a very Lance thing to do.

"Keith?"

"Yeah?"

It came out more as a half-hearted mumble than he'd been aiming at, but then he had been just on the cusp of drifting off again.

"Be honest with me here. D'you think I'm not cut out for Blue and she just took pity on me or something? If anyone'd know, you would. Right?"

His first thought was is he joking right now? but then, remembering everything that'd happened in the last.... however long it'd been since Lance had woken him up, he realised that no, Lance probably wasn't joking.

"Lance," he said flatly, staring at nothing in particular, "your Lion went on a half-hour long tangent about stars while we were barely evading the empire. You're made for each other. And no, I'm not being sarcastic, before you accuse me of that. No, no. I'm pretty sure that if she took pity on anyone, it was me."

There's a pause, about the span of just a couple of breaths, and then he hears Lance snort, clearly amused.

"You're kidding."

"No, I'm not. You remember the rockfall I told you about? I shouted. At rocks. I think I stubbed my toe. It hurt. I somehow don't think she'd let you shout at rocks."

Lance starts laughing. After so long hearing him being so damn serious, it was a amazing sound, even if it was one he hadn't thought he'd ever miss that much.

"I'm- I'm going to remember that one, you know," Lance manages to get out, still laughing.

Keith groans, unsure how much he regretted his decision to share that particular bit of information just yet.

"Go back to sleep, Lance. And go back to your own room, because you aren't staying in mine."

He's back to drifting off before Lance is gone, not even hearing the door slide shut behind him.

...

There's a sort of closeness that comes from sharing secrets with people, he comes to realise. It's similar to what things were like with the Blade, but different at the same time.

With the Blade, no one really had a choice - everyone all knew that if you let something slip, then hundreds - even thousands, or more - lives were at stake. Everyone was trusted. But it was an automatic responsibility as much as it was something that was entrusted to anyone.

With his team now, though... it was starting to feel, bit by bit, more possible that he could open up like this to the rest of them. Maybe not soon. Maybe not now. The idea still scared him, if he was honest with himself. 

But it was getting increasingly more a matter of maybe instead of if.

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Movie. 

I was watching a movie last night. It was a long and quite frankly poorly-made movie. You see, it was one of those indie “deep” movies everyone loves watching nowadays. It was called “The Room”. A fitting title for a movie filmed in a single room. And so it began quite fittingly with the room. It was fairly small, less than 12 square meters (yet the real estate agents would tell you it was at least 18), and with no furniture. The walls and the floor were white. It had no windows, nor apples. Just a door. And in that room we got to see the main protagonist. At first he did nothing. Absolutely nothing. I even thought the movie had glitched as it just looked like a still frame. But slowly he started to move a finger, a leg, an arm, his torso. Soon he was waddling around the room and my god how he loved that shitty room. It was a fucking room with white walls and a white floor. Nothing more. And he looked at it like it was a palace. He knew every corner of her. He knew every little bump, every stroke of the white paint. And he kept relearning them, because you see something for the second time only once. At some point I must have fallen asleep from the sheer boredom of a movie. When I woke up (must have been over an hour) the movie was still going. But hey something had happened. He wasn’t the only one in the room. There were other people too. Older, younger, girls, boys, men, women, dogs, cops, all rotten breeds of man were there. And before I knew it it happened. He started talking. Hours of this movie and I had never heard him talk. But his voice was the most beautiful one I had ever heard, it etched itself into my soul and made it tremble with every new word. From his first word I was speechless, from his second I was in love, and from his third I was addicted. I wanted more. I kept moving forward towards the white screen where the movie was being projected. I wanted to see the lips that made those beautiful sounds. I wanted more. He was smiling. God I loved him. I knew why the movie had 100% on rotten tomatoes. He was talking to the others in the room. WHY COULDN’T THEY KEEP THEIR LINES SHORTER! COULDN’T THEY SHUT UP! ASK HIM DO NOT GIVE ME INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELVES! THE MOVIE COULD END SOON, PLEASE GIVE HIM MORE LINES! And from his tenth word onwards I was no longer addicted. Everything I had ever done was simply to bring me here. My existence became synonymous with him talking. I was irrelevant. GOD ONE MORE WORD! YESSS! 11! I am counting them! 12, 13,14,15….. 16….17,18,19,20,21… Good night, see you around! Yes everyone is leaving and I can finally listen only to you talk! But something is off about this movie. The tape must have gotten old. It seems to be getting dimmer. Why is he not talking! Can u hear me? RESPOND TO ME! I am banging on the screen but he does not seem to notice me. All he is doing is sitting there in the room, curled in a ball, keeping the same smile as before. Nooo… STAND UP AND TALK! WHY?? WHY!!!!1 WHO WROTE THIS MOVIE! REWRITE IT NOW PLEASE! LET HIM TALK AGAIN! As if to respond I was hearing noises from the movie. His noises! My heart skipped a bit… But he wasn’t talking he was.. Whimpering. Yet he wasn’t crying he was still smiling. NO STOP THIS! STOP IT! WHO WROTE THIS MOVIE! IT IS AWFUL! HOW COULD IT HAVE 100% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES! I am on my knees, hitting the screen, but my gaze is towards the ground… please one more line. Just one more. A simple “Goodbye, see you around!”. Or just “Cheers!”. Something! Anything… Just so I can cherish his voice one last time. I never appreciated it. I slept through it. How much more did he say? I must have missed it all! GOD! I never appreciated it! PLEASE! I didn’t know those would be his last line! NO! I fall to the ground. I hit my shoulder on something hard. It is a wooden cross. As if rejuvenated I get up and with Herculean strength keep banging on the screen with the cross! NO MORE! NO MORE OF THIS! LET HIM SPEAK! HE HAS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY! SOMEONE OPEN THE DOOR AND ASK HIM WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO SAY! PLEASE! I WANT TO HEAR HIS VOICE AGAIN! The movie was getting dimmer and the tape was skipping. Soon the credits will start rolling! NO! I run up to the projectionist room and break the window. I try to roll back the tape to when he was talking! I never appreciated this movie. And oh… GOD! I called it boring. But the tape kept rolling. I wasn’t strong enough. I try to push it, pull it, I shout for help, but nothing. It is just me in the saloon. And I can see it. Last 6000 frames. I run back to the screen. I try to whisper to him that everything will be alright, another projection might start and I will be there to listen to all his lines this time. He doesn’t seem to hear. What a lie. What a good lie. I am lying to myself, he knows the truth though. I fall to the ground. I curl in a ball and whimper. Last 3000 frames. He just sits there in his room. Smiling pleasantly. I wish those lips moved again. I stand up and before I know it I lean in to kiss them. But as soon as I get close to the screen, it turns dark from my shadow. I collapse to the ground. I can’t bear to watch the last 1000 frames. I try to remember what his voice sounded like, but I can’t. I start crying. I hide my face in my hands. I forgot I was holding the cross… But… it’s not a wooden cross. Now that I look at it closely. It’s a knife. The projector hits the last 500 frames mark with a distinct shtrrrr. I instinctively look up. He is still there. But now I know what to do. I take the knife up and push it right above my heart. Red blood starts spilling everywhere in two streams - one darker and one going higher in bright red. I feel nothing however. A puddle starts forming around my legs. With it I draw a few red people with red smiles to talk to him. How beautiful is the white room - like a canvas for me. There he looks up and smiles friendly at them. He opens to say something. My heart cannot even skip a beat. I just hope he is happy with the red people, with the red smiles, in the now red room.

What a movie it was, truly. I gave it a 100% on rotten tomatoes.

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