#PCE answers things

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

do you have any recent recs or favorites, font of fic wisdom? ive read so many works of art thanks to you 💖

Why of course I do my dear! Recent highlights include:

Project Deucalion by OrcaTimes. You know I love their writing style, and this one is really cool in concept and execution!

Already Yours by Sugarhoneysweet. Read this one yesterday, tbh it’s a lot of smut, but it’s SOOO cute and we have the classic not really unrequited style pining, plus bunny!

Twenty Dollars and a Stain On The Couch by Cheylouwho and valzilla. Been a sec since I’ve read this one but mafia au, kyvid, Stan’s characterization is SO cool, this one eats heed the tags

Abraham’s Son by All_Fic_One. Kyman hunger games au, the worldbuilding is incredible, it’s SUPER emotional and violent bc it’s the hunger games, and I’m obsessed with the characters

Penguin Approved by gloriousovulationjk. It’s not a South Park rec, but if you like jayvik, it’s SO good so far. Zookeeper/avian scientist au, very very cute.

The Rebound by asteria7. NATURALLY I have to mention this, because it was PHENOMENAL!!! Style, basketball player Kyle, Stan being a sweetheart, injury recovery my beloved, tension, just sooo great. Teri always kills it man

River Teeth by nonbinarybead. Read this one a while back and adored it, super dark with supernatural elements, evil Cartman, immortal Kenny, style, Kyle and Kenny centric, incredible imagery. Been rereading it when I’m in the mood

Anchored to You by lmahfts8. Pirates, style, creek, and the banter is hysterical so far. Super fun

The Sandwich Thief by amperstellar. If you like Heroes of Olympus, this coworker jercy au is ICONIC. The gangs all there and it is a slay secret admirer office romance.

Is It Wrong To Pick Up Guys In A Car Accident? by ticsntricks. Creek meet cute! We love motorcycle Craig in this household

As Long As I Have You by iksvolforb. WEREWOLF STAN! Style oneshot, super well written. I love me some codependency

That’s what I got for now, enjoy!

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

I’m lacking in full on recs tbh, but I’ve read a metric fuckton of whumpshots, AHeartForStories and evilwriter37 have quite a few! I’ve kinda just been binging their shorter works the past few days lol. And I personally need to give the dragon riders the Whumpshot Wizard treatment tbh

@1moreoffkeyanthem Pspspspsps :3

You got any HTTYD whump recs for me?

[what-is-that-cats-genetic-string]

Welcome!

I will be figuring out the approximate not-cat genetic strings of various cats! If you don't understand what any of those things mean, check out a guide here.

Tags used by this blog are:

"#cat gened" - Self explanatory. I gened a cat.

"#not-genes" - Self. explanatory. I didn't.

"#checking the mail" - Answering asks.

Additionally, the traits the cat has will be included in the tags. For example:

[C][NS][LL][BOFF4][YYTT][YN4C] #cat gened #1 cat #trade wind #longhair #black-red tortoiseshell #mackerel #4C white

Multiple cats can be gened per post. String will not include growth rate or accent colour, due to them not being able to be determined. Additionally, if there is no evidence of a recessive (such as a cat with SL but nothing showing it) then I will assume it isn't there (SS). Same goes for single-colour cats. If there is no evidence at all for a field (no white, no pattern, etc) I'm just gonna make shit up. Same goes for North and South winds, I will just choose based on vibes. And if the cat is something that doesn't exist in PCE, I will go with the next closest thing that does.

Cats can be submitted for geneing via the ask box, or you can tag me in the posts! Additionally, the ask box can be used to speak to the blog owner (me!). Speaking of blog owner:

This blog is operated by @limeleviathan. You may find her/me in Pixel Cat's End as LimeLeviathan, user ID 23796.

[chaotic-gremlin-27]

Hi! I love your pop culture entities posts and was wondering how you figure out what domains a pop culture entity or pop culture deity would have influence over? 🙃 I’m struggling to figure out certain entity and deity domains because a lot of the worlds they come from are very fantastical and don’t have everyday life domain implications. Tysm!

OMG HI YES IM SO SORRY I ANSWERED THIS IN MY HEAD AND THEN FORGOT TO TYPE IT OUT!!

So how I figure out what ones have domains over what is I mainly look at canonical associations as well as fanon associations. Let’s use dabi as an example as I am nothing if not consistent in my talk of Dabi. So Dabi in my practice rules over child abuse, parental neglect, self liberation, and chaos. These are all things that can be explained through canon. Child abuse and parental neglect are things he experiences or witnesses with his siblings. Self liberation is because he decided to fake his own death and escape his family (and therefore abuse) to go and live a life for a cause he thought was worth fighting. And finally chaos because he’s a villain who likes to bring destruction and mayhem wherever he goes.

For a more fantastical pce I’ll use twilight sparkles from my little pony as an example. Her domains would be knowledge (because she is shown to value learning and information), friendship (because that’s the entire point of the show honestly), and magic (because she is considered the element of magic in canon). Even though she is a pony in a magical universe where humans don’t necessarily exist, there are still human ideals and morals found in her characterization as she was made by humans. Honestly if you’re having a hard time figuring out what a pce’s domain is I recommend looking at their traits, canonical characterization, common associations they have, and if need be you can always ask others for help.

Hope this helps!!

[samagii]

⁺🎸◞ samuels labyrinth

disclaimer: this is not roleplay, fictionkin, or delusion, but those who are roleplaying, fictionkin, and/or delusional are allowed to follow and interact. please do not call me delusional, as this can trigger my paranoia and cause me to spiral into not believing my own experiences / reality, which could send me into psychosis.

🂭 ,,, hello ! my name is samuel, i use he/it, im 16, an im an irl magical boy !!

my concept is puella magi madoka magica, and i contracted with Madokami on 6/13/25 :D

i have been practicing chaos magick on and off for a few years now, and while i am not new to the concept of pop culture magick / pop culture paganism, i am new to the practice of it. same thing w/ astral projection as well. im also a shifter ! i knew about and was a shifter back in 2020, but forgot about shifting until recently, where i got back into it.

im the host of a did system, am nonhuman (mentally + physically), queer, trans (genderqueer + ftm), and am physically and mentally disabled.

my main / biggest kin is grey wolf (though i do have others), and this aspect of who i am impacts me greatly. tldr; beware of wolf posting

i am also an incarnate of both fire and chaos. i dont consider these kins for personal reasons, but element / concept kins are very much allowed to interact !

i worship both "traditional" gods and pce/d's. i currently worship Loki, Gaia / Mother Earth, and Madokami / the Law Of Cycles.

🂭 ,,, dni / dnf

bigots, right wing / maga, queer exclus, anti endo, harass ppl, anti shifter, anti irl magical heroes, anti pop culture paganism, anti chaos magick, against self dx, fakeclaim ppl, ableist, reality check ppl w/o their consent, force recovery on those who aren't ready / dont want to recover, think fiction ALWAYS or NEVER affects reality (theres nuance !!!), think fiction can make someone into a pedo / zoo / etc, equate fictional stories and drawings of characters that dont exist to the real harm of real people (esp equating that fictional content to the harm of real children, as a survivor of grooming, csa, csem, and underage... work, its insanely offensive to say a drawing is just as bad as the photos of child me that are still out there), terf / radfem, zionists / pro israel, supports a two state solution, "cluster b abuse" believers and similar ideas of mental illness specific abuse

🂭 ,,, tags

#𝄞 maybe its a dream - maybe nothing else is real .. // this tag is for all posts related to irl magical hero stuff !!

#𖤐 even though i was born from a colored star .. // this tag is for all posts related to pcp, chaos magick, astral projection, shifting, manifestation, and general paganism / magick as well !

#✞ misfortune is a gift - really - like a bouquet of splendid flowers .. // this tag is for all vent posts !!!

#☆ it feels like somethings gonna happen ; a premonition .. // this tag is for informational posts about pcp, paganism, chaos magick, witchcraft, astral projection, and irl magical hero topics !

#✘ long pointed wings with scars run beneath the skin .. // this tag is for any asks i answer !!!

#𖦹 dig deep beneath your filling - theres an animal waiting that must come out .. // this tag is for journal entries !!

#❤︎ a large queue was formed at it - where everyone continues on with a smile .. // this tag is for queued posts !!!

#꒰੭ i wake up to a call - put my frilly outfit on now .. // this tag is for reblogs !

#✦ my ribs opened up - made room for beating hearts .. // this tag is for my questions about irl magical heroing, pop culture paganism and magick, chaos magick, astral projection, shifting, manifestation, general paganism / magick, etc etc. !!!

#ꔫ are you going to curse the blue sky - and wish for stormy weather ? .. // this tag is for my witch logs !

#🃜 if i were any older i would act my age .. // this tag is on all of my posts !!

[rainyheartscrown]

Hi!! I was wondering, as a late game/established player, what is your primary income? I finally joined this month and things have been a bit slow which I hear is normal! But I remember reading on the forums one player mentioning a big auction for the first owl mantle in which they offered a million currency for the cat…I can’t even imagine a plan on how to make that much hahaha

Omg hi welcome to PCE! I hope you had enjoyed your time with the site so far. As always, I tend to ramble in my answers, so check the readmore below!

Honestly? My primary source of notes nowadays is none at all. Occasionally (like, very occasionally), I'll sell the materials/clothing I got from doing my dailies on the Open Marketplace. Flowery/nature-y items, especially, can go for a lot. Maybe you might have some 1kn-lowest-price flower headpiece in your inventory right now!

Unlocking the scribe/apothecary professions and making Love Letters or Catmint Tea respectively is also a reliable notes-maker, especially nearing big important dates/holidays both on Not-Earth and irl. Spring 1, Year 10 and the recentish Feb 29th are some examples of this.

If I have some more free time though, I tend to go Adventuring! While your big ticket item here are business cards (they tend to go for 4kn nowadays, which is a bit of a far cry from the 6kn I remembered from last year, haha), but quickselling any superfluous trinkets/materials you gain from completing rounds of Heart of the Woods is also a great way to make notes. Every little bit counts there! I have yet to do this method yet, but I know of people who also get floor-price cats from the Cat Recruitment Board (looks like they are hovering around 400n right now) and raise them up to Lv 4, with a 3-cat adventuring party, for all of their denim traveller's packs, and then see them off to the city. Opening these packs is also the most reliable free way to get essence fragments too!

[accapitalmarket]

An Eventful Week: US NFP, Powell Speech and Key Data

This week could get emotional for investors as equity markets slide, we receive an avalanche of tier-one data globally, and President Trump announces the results of "tariff day" on Wednesday. I wish I had answers for everybody, but sadly, the only things clear to me are that gold seems indestructible, and volatility will be the winner.

Wall Street took fright on Friday, and my previous warning about bear market rallies is ringing in my ears. The Fed's favourite inflation measure, the PCE Deflator, came in hotter on Friday, as did consumer inflation expectations. Nerves frayed on tariff trade disruption as well. Stagflation is on more lips now. Stagflation is a dark corner of economics best thought of as falling growth coupled with rising prices.

On Friday, the S&P 500 tumbled by 1.97%, the Nasdaq slumped 2.70% lower, while the Dow Jones fell by 1.69%. The US dollar fell modestly, oil prices retreated, but gold rose sharply as investors fled to safety.

While most of the attention is on Wednesday's announcements from the White House, the economic calendar is packed this week. China announces official Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing PMI today, with the Caixin survey results tomorrow. Tuesday also has Japan’s Jibun Bank Manufacturing PMI, the RBA announces its latest interest rate decision, and Eurozone CPI.

In the US, the week starts with Chicago PMI and moves on to JOLTS job data on Tuesday, tariff announcements on Wednesday, Initial Jobless Claims on Thursday, and Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday. Fed Chairman Powell speaks on the US economic outlook late on Friday.

Even a decent China PMI today is unlikely to stem a red tide across Asian equities after a quiet weekend of headlines and Friday's rout on Wall Street. This week will be notable for whipsaw price action across asset classes. Don't discount a few surprises from Powell on Friday as the tariff dust settles.

Haven buying propelled Gold 0.94% higher Friday, closing at $3,085.30 an ounce. I am often asked how high gold can go or how long this rally will last. I have no idea about the former, and as for the latter, as long as President Trump keeps causing global market turmoil, gold will remain bid. US mid-term elections are 18-ish months away, and he has just under four years on the job.

That said, gold could correct lower this week, as the Relative Strength Index is heavily overbought. However, the chart remains unequivocally bullish. The rising trendline, today at $3022.00, held beautifully last week and may limit any pullbacks. Below that is support at $2,955.00 and $2,830.00 before the multi-year support at $2,744.00. $3,100.00 may feature option-related selling short-term, but in this climate, it shouldn't be an insurmountable barrier.

XAUUSD Daily

US stock markets are flashing red lights as the Nasdaq's attempted rally last week failed ahead of its 200-day moving average (DMA) and resistance at 20,525.00. It slumped back through the multi-year support line at 19.947.00 last week, and failure of 19,100.00 could trigger another wave of selling.

NAS100Roll Daily

The S&P 500 never looked likely to recapture its 18-month support line, failing at the 200-DMA at 5779. The 5,500 regions loom as critical technical support, failure heralding another leg lower, potentially targeting 17,000.

SPX500Roll Daily

Australia’s ASX 200 appears to be on thin ice as well. Apart from the lucky country going to the polls in early May, being a best friend of the US won’t help it dodge US tariffs, and the RBA will likely maintain a hawkish stance this week.

Resistance at 8,020 held last week, after 18-month support failed in early March. Failure of support at 7,720 could trigger more selling, targeting the 7,400 area.

AUS200Roll Daily

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[seancekitsch]

YOOO PLEASE GIVE ME AN ADRIAN CHASE MUTUAL PINING SITUATION WHERE THEY END UP KISSING DEEPLY AGAINST A WALL 🤪🙈

hey bestie here ya go pce nd luv

“Just team them up and let them fuck!” you hear Chris’ voice through the door before you even enter. Damn, its too early for this.

“Let who fuck?” you ask as you open the door to HQ, not bothering to take off your sunglasses as you plopped down between Adrian and Leota. 

“You and Thimble over there!”

You blink and stutter, but Adrian answers before you can.

“Dont call me Thimble, I’m a late bloomer!”

“You know thats not a-“

“Stop!” Leota yells, only to get the two to stop arguing. You nudge her in thanks and she gives only the slightest nod in recognition. 

“No, thats not what’s happening,” Emilia interrupts.

“Adebayo and Economos are staying in the van, Chris and Adrian are taking the east, Y/n and I will go west.”

That checks, thats solid. You zone out after you hear the main details. You’re sure you can mesh out the little stuff later. You’re hungover, but the man next to you seems not to be. The unbearably cute, totally not hungover, hilarious as shit man next to you. It’s hard to focus on anything other than him. You remember last night, everyone had left the bar except for the two of you. You’d done something pathetic, maybe, but you pretended you didn’t know how to play pool so Adrian would teach you. Emilia and Chris know you’re a bit of a pool shark, but why would he? You let him lean in close against your back, trying hard not to lean back, press your ass against him, as he bent you over the pool table to get the best angle. The amount of liquid courage and the weeks you’d wanted to kiss him were needed to even attempt that.

Adrian, similarly, can’t focus on this meeting either. All he can think of is you, you, you. You make him feel…things. Anything. Frustration, anger, joy, even maybe love. Chris spent the morning telling him all about how you could beat anyone blindfolded in pool after he bound in here excited about the supposed progress he’d made in woo’ing you. He loved being that close to you. He almost kissed you last night but that nagging doubt he hasn’t managed to kill yet stopped him short.

“Take a breather, regroup in ten!” Emilia says, and it snaps you from your thoughts. 

You stand quickly, swaying a little as last night hits you again, and make a beeline to the door that leads to the alley. You need fresh air like you need a hole in the head, which you do probably also need after that embarrassing display in front of the man you like last night. 

The second you’re in the alley, you take a deep breath, and rub the heel of your palm against your sternum to ground yourself. 

“Shame we aren’t paired together,” you hear from behind you, and whip around a little too quickly to see Adrian standing there.

“Damn right it is. We make a good team,” you offer back, lifting your sunglasses for the first time since you left home this morning. 

“Right? just like in pool,” his tone sounds like that same teasing he does when he kills someone.

“I could even show you some moves,” he offers, and it’s not clear if he know what he does to you, the butterflies he causes in your stomach.

“oh… Yeah? What moves would those be?” almost a falter, but a smooth landing. 

He steps forward, and you take a step back instinctually. 

He steps forward more, and then only stopping when you gasp at the feeling of the brick wall against your back.

“Well first, you have to trap them. I mean, if they can escape, you can’t kill them, right?”

You nod, shoulders relaxing as his hands find their way to the bricks on either side of your head. 

“Then what?” you ask, feigning innocence. You know exactly what position means.

“Find their weak spot,” he whispers, before smashing his lips against your own. It’s messy and sloppy, but so are the two of you sometimes. His lips travel around your face, your jaw, your neck.

And then he bites down right below your pulse point, earning him a wanton moan.

“That your weak spot?” he teases, and you smack him on the back playfully. His hands leave the wall to grab at you, one hand finding the base of your neck; the other one hiking your leg up around his hip. His lips descend back against your own, his glasses fogged up and cheeks flushed. 

“See, I told you they needed to team up!” 

And the two of you freeze. A perfect moment ruined by your mutual best friend. 

Both of you laugh, and you peck him twice more on the lips before untangling from him. 

“Hasn’t played pool, fucking bullshit,” Chris continues, and you all laugh your way to the van, Adrian’s arm around your waist. 

[pinksparklelps]

WELCOME TO MY BLOG !!!

I am your beloved host Sparky (you can also call me Sprout) and im nonbinary and use she/they/it/dusk pronouns :) i am also lesbian and demisexual!

I have autism and adhd, and am diagnosed with depression and anxiety so please be patient ^^ (tone indicators are VERY welcome!)

I’m really sorry, but I don’t accept asks about donations. As much as I wish and hope for people to get the help they need and deserve, I cannot answer those for both the fact that I don’t have any money, and it would only do harm to my mental health. It genuinely fills me with dread. I wish you all luck in getting what you need, even if I can’t help you.

My interests are:

Stray, Cattails, Warrior Cats, Wings of Fire, Inscryption, Hollow Knight, Subnautica, Stardew Valley, Sky: Cotl, Cookie Run, Jsab, Fnaf, hfjone, Bfb/Tpot, Raft, Nitw, Wolfquest, Portal, Journey, Oneshot, Acnh, Will You Snail?, PCE, Detroit: Become Human, Dandy’s World, Deep Rock Galactic, Little Kitty Big City, ect

Fun facts about me!

My favorite animals are birds, foxes, and mustelids

I’ve memorized all of Citizen Soldier’s songs

I have 4 guinea pigs and 2 birds

I am a cyborg (half deaf, so i have an implant)

I absolutely fuckin love the stars and moon

I have fallen up the stairs at least twice

I’m so Sprout-coded he me fr fr

Go check out my favorite people!! (Dont wanna actually actually @ so)

@/healerelowen beetleskeleton

@/icyangelsblog

@/iron-galliant

@/bones-of-a-rabbit

@/itzme-thefaust

@/dreaming-aylun

@/carnivoreofthesea

@/drakothedragon55

I have some sideblogs!

@just-flowers-and-crystals (jsab au)

@/twilight-aquarium (run by multiple people)

@keeper-of-the-maps (twilight aquarium rp blog)

@clementine-the-outsider (stray rp blog)

@butterscotch-cookie (indefinite hiatus crk x reader blog)

@jsab-au-remix (au of my jsab au)

@sprout-seedly-003 (rp blog for sprout from dandys world)

Check out some things!

Artfight: https://artfight.net/~PinkSparkleLps

Cattails Wildwood Story Info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7D1nzdGD2DKsiZF-AvFQPUvMclhglHWCPk_R5CXhP4/edit

Sparky’s Multiverse Info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/175zNPE-cpJWMXtMZ-vlg-GT752jTdkIQu2Q7yTMAYnQ/edit

Unvale: https://unvale.io/PinkSparkleLps

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/pinksparklelps

Kins: Leafpool, Cube, Mae, Mekh, X, Fluttershy, Radiance, Light Whisperer, Izzy Moonbow, Pure Vanilla Cookie, Timekeeper Cookie, Niko, Madeleine Cookie, Red Velvet Cookie, Pitaya Dragon Cookie, White Lily Cookie, Glamrock Chica, Clementine, P03, Sundrop/Moondrop, Gangle, Snatcher, Moonlight Cookie, ALT, Airy, Squid, Fawn, Cabby, Sprout, Dandy

-More added later-

❌DNI UNDER THE CUT❌

DNI:

Ableist

Proshipper

Are associated with the users @/fluffnstuffq, @/gigycrem

Lgbtphobe

Bigot

Racist

Antisemite

NS/FW accounts (not on this blog at least—minors follow me probably so yknow)

Triggers & Squicks:

Bugs

Anxiety-inducing posts like ‘reblog or this will happen’

Real blood/open wounds

Needles

Loud noises/earrape

Talk of politics and covid

Horror/creepypasta

Talk of abuse

Gore/extremely detailed death

Bright colors

Extremely fast movements directed toward me

Calling me pet names or sexy/hot (im in a relationship only my partner gets to call me cute things)

Ill add more if needed

[jspark3000]

I went through a traumatic life experience about 3 years ago. As it played out over the last 2 years, I feel like I've lost my inner drive to do anything. What do I do?

Hey dear friend, I’m sorry to hear this and thank you for sharing about it with me.

While I’m not a doctor or therapist, I can speak just in my capacity as a trained hospital chaplain. Trauma is a serious issue that’s gotten a lot more attention in the last decade, which I’m really grateful for. I highly recommend reading The Body Keeps the Score. (Warning that it does contain some hard descriptions.)

- Therapy. I can’t recommend this enough. Self-disclosure is one of the absolutely best ways to get through trauma. Whether that’s with a therapist, friend, mentor, pastor: we need to talk it out. Jamie Pennebaker’s studies about self-disclosure reveal that it’s not just about venting, but sense-making. Even simply writing about your trauma (if you don’t like writing, then recording it by audio) for fifteen minutes a day for several days can have noticeable health benefits. Pennebaker suggests answering these two questions: Why did this happen? What good might I derive from it? (Quoted from The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.)

- Interoception. When trauma occurs, it not only leads to a sense of personal and spiritual control, but also physical control of our own bodies. We can experience fatigue, chronic pain, numbness, depersonalization, or dissociation. In other words, we can become detached from ourselves. So often this happens because our internal narrative says, “This bad thing happened to me, therefore I am bad.” 

One of the ways to fight this is to “master” our own bodies again. That can be done through exercise, yoga, dance, martial arts, bike-riding, or any sensory experience that requires rehearsed and specific moves. To get to know your own body again is to own your body again. (Concept of interoception from The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.)

- 7 Types of Positive Experiences. A landmark study was recently published in September 2019, in which seven positive childhood experiences (PCEs) were found to create resiliency in those who suffered trauma. This is a really big deal. I’m also convinced that these positive experiences work for adults too. Please check out this article plus the original study. Here are the seven PCEs quoted from the article and study:

Able to talk with my family about my feelings.

Felt that my family stood by me during difficult times.

Enjoyed participating in community traditions.

Felt a sense of belonging in high school.

Felt supported by friends.

Had at least two non-parent adults who took a genuine interest in me.

Felt safe and protected by an adult in my home.

- Medication. I will always recommend medication. Yes, it can be over-prescribed or too easily prescribed. But we need every resource we can get.

- A good community. This almost goes without saying. Friends, family, mentors, elders, a church, a club, a weekly hang-out: having a community is not just therapeutic, but perhaps also the point of living.

- Belief. I know this is controversial, but nearly every single study done about post-traumatic growth indicates that some kind of belief was needed to overcome trauma. From earthquakes to floods to losing loved ones, those who recovered showed sense-making, or belief in a higher power, or at least the belief that something good could be found in the midst of the bad. Belief is powerful and it can absolutely heal.

God bless, my friend, and much love and peace to you. Please message me again any time.

— J.S.

I have a whole chapter in my book about trauma and I hate to plug it this way, but it says everything I already wrote above. So you don’t have to get it unless it really interests you.

[thegorydamnreaper]

Pierce Brown Dark Age Reddit AMA Highlights! Part 2

THIS IS DARK AGE-SPOILER FREE, BUT A REALLY FUN READ!

On how the Howlers stay fit between missions: “Fitness is maintained within gravity gyms, which they usually set to 2 terran Gs, but may change throughout their workout. Sevro just does the whiskey.”

On how datapads are supposed to look: “depends. Some have them hardwired in. Others have them implanted in their armor or adhered to the arm. Most are small and triangular and expand to show a display when activated”

On the “Bye, Felicia” moment: “Had to drop it. Funny thing. I had "by felicity" in the first draft, and my editor Mike Braff told me to buck up and go all in. He was Felicia's first champion”

On a scene that was edited out but he wished could have stayed in: “So much world building! Oh man, I had scene with Raa hunting one of their dragons that had gone mad and killed civilians. There was this big speech by Romulus to his children that their pets are not more valuable than human lives.”

On LGBT characters being in Dark Age: “Probably, considering the sexual fluidity common in 753 PCE”

On characters sometimes surprising him with how their arcs turn out: “Thank you! Great question. Apollonius for certain. Hell Trigg was supposed to be part of a Darrow, Sevro trio after Rags died, but you cant have Aja in a scene without someone dying. Orion and Apollonius were huge surprises. Even Roque in many ways. All those characters do so little in Darrow's direct pov, but when they do something it almost always matters.”

Eo (the dog) is “currently embroiled in a tangled affair with two french bulldogs” and is not available for any other romantic entanglements.

On why the Society Colors are a thing: “I thought it was the most visceral way of doing it, and upon re-reading plato, it seemed the iconography of Gold, iron, bronze seemed to feel ancient and have the right vibes”

On Adrius: “I wanted to feel something for Adrius before I revealed his sinister internal logic, because otherwise the horror doesn't really affect. He's a deeply troubled young man who looks at humans as chess pieces. He always was that way to me, but I can see how it can be disillusioning. It was necessary to mention because it is disillusioning too. He's so complex, and then he does something completely banal and predictable. He's a genius. But he still likes sex. It seemed interesting to me.”

Goal with Dark Age: “to answer the questions of Iron Gold, to answer the promise of the Solar War--what it really looks and feels like, and to deepen the characters while plunging once more into the breech”

[cowboyguts-moved]

jo I have never talked to u outside of anon but for as long as I have been following u (v long time like Lukebb long time) I just think u r the coolest n I luv u I hope u r well idk if it’s weird to tell u I luv u since we have nvr rlly talked but ur blog makes me happy n I feel like a famous person has noticed me when u answer my asks hope u r well pce n luv muah :*

FAMOUS HHHFHdbsdf please u would be sorely mistaken. I love you TOO oh my god of course it isn’t weird its my favorite thing to hear. I’m doing okay thank you for asking me and for messaging me and JEEZ witnessing it all literally. thank you very much this is so sweet and it means a lot to me i hope you’re doing good too muah

[itakesurveys]

Survey 335

How do you feel right now? I feel tired, but waking up. having a cup of coffee & blasting some music. 

Are you sleepy? haha, always. 

Have you ever cut yourself? i would say no.. but hurt myself. yes. 

Who do you dream about most? blackness. i don’t remember my dreams. 

What do you want more than anything right now? 10k cash. OR for tiny homes to be legalized in every state in USA. 

Do you have something you want to say, but never could? how i feel in the moment. 

Where is your favorite place to be? my bed. 

What makes you happy? i guess. lol. 

Who makes you happy? boyfriend & few close friends & my mom. 

When are you happiest? when i’m home with boyfriend, smoking, laughing & listening to music.

What is the funniest thing you have ever done? lol no idea. i don’t think i’m that funny. people say i am tho. 

What is the funniest movie you have ever seen? i love The Heat. 

What candy/drink makes you most hyper? redbull.

Do you talk to yourself? all the time. LOCK ME UP lol.

Do you have to sing those catchy jingles on TV commercials every time? everyday! “no, i’m claireeeee” 

Do you have more than 5 celebrity crushes? nah. FREE BRITNEY.

Do you find joy in making other people mad? no. i hate fighting, idc enough. 

Do you answer the phone by saying anything besides ‘Hello’? hello.

Do you get mad easily? not really.

Do you get jealous often? if i have a reason, yes. 

What makes you mad? the word “whatever” being dismissed, and hypocrites.

Are there any people that often make you mad? boyfriend lOl. 

Do your friends comfort you when you’re angry? i stay to myself. i don’t talk to anyone about how i feel. i grew up that way. idk. never give people the ammunition. 

Do you like to cause drama? not even a little. i’ll just cut you off. pce lol.

Where did you go today? liquor store. 

How late do you usually sleep in? work days; 6:50am. 

Do you like traveling? never been anywhere.. 

Are more of your friends girls or guys? girls. 

What is your favorite song right now? hmm.. Spend it - Mulatto

What do you want to do right now? take a shower i guess. 

[trinahh \ bionic-beth]

[rootivy-archive]

thanks 4 tagging me @thicksims​ and @citruswhims​ and @smubuh Rules: Answer 30 Questions and tag 10 People

Nickname(s): em or emzy. lel Gender: female Sign: ARIESSSS Height: last time i checked i was 5′2 but lastime i checked was last year so lol i probably grew Time: 10:27pm i need to go to bed soon cuz schooooool Birthday: april 16 woop woop Favourite Band(s): umm, ONE DIRECTION, oh wait. lmao kidding idk man Favourite Solo Artist(s): so many, um ed sheeran probably if i had to choose Song stuck in my head: none rn Last Movie I watched: boi your lucky today i watched pitch perfect 3 and it was so great, i love fat amy with all my heart. Last Show I watched: STRANGER THINGS IM CURRENTLY WATCHING RN IN FACT When did I create this blog: idfk lol a few weeks after the nsb challenge came out sooo probably late febuary early march, last year? What do I post: nothing What did I last google: nsb challenge lmao, i was checking when it came out! dont judge Other blogs: @cozyfinds, @almondssmilk i posted one nsb post on almondssmilk lol and cozyfinds well its a cc finds blog obviously Do I get asks: no, no one loves me Why did I choose this url: smubuh’s name generator Following: 1128 Followers: 1 589 Average hours of sleep: 9 hours on school nights 8-10 on weekends Lucky Number: well its not lucky from what i know but my favourite # is 5. because, well its stupid, yknow how remotes have a dote on the 5? well its unique so i like it. lol im so lame Instrument: i play the flute and the piano What am I wearing: black tights and a mustard yellow t, pce Dream job: writer Last book I read: last book i finished reading was percy jackson and the olypians, sea of monsters. im currently reading the third book titans curse 3 Favourite Fandoms: RIVERDALE, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, STRANGER THINGS. UM UM PERCY JACKSON ANDDDDD UH MEMES LOL IDK. THIS WAS WAY MORE THEN 3 BUT DO I GIVE A SHIT, NO Tag 10 People: @sadtrait @cozylemonade and @blogginginsimlish

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

I'm currently binging South Park, and I'm on Spookyfish, and I just came in to swing by and inquire: do you think Stan loves fish but from a distance simply from that one experience? Like of course, he loves all life and living things but like do you think he ever gets just a little creeped out if he stares at a fish for just a little too long?

Lmaooo I can totally see that! He’ll be admiring a cool fish and then he’s like …wait why is it looking at me like that

Hilarious thank you

[berniesrevolution]

If you’ve read an article or two about economic inequality in the United States at any point in the past decade, chances are you’ve come across a chart like this:

Economic Policy Institute

The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute has been producing that graphic, and ones like it, for years now. It shows that in the aftermath of World War II through the early 1970s, workers got paid more as the economy grew. Median hourly compensation rose in tandem with productivity (the amount of economic output workers could produce per hour).

But something changed in 1973 or thereabouts. While productivity kept growing, and the economy as a whole did too (with some temporary setbacks during recessions), the average worker’s pay package did not. The implication is clear: The economy broke at a certain point, and now workers are getting screwed.

The point is especially powerful when you consider that the share of income going to the top 1 percent, and particularly the top 0.1 percent and top 0.01 percent, has skyrocketed:

Emmanuel Saez / Thomas Piketty 2014

Now there’s a new graph to add to the pile, one that is uncommonly thorough and precise and gives a portrait of how incomes have grown for each segment of the population from 1913 to the present. Produced by Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez and his frequent collaborators Thomas Piketty (EHESS), and Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley), and using a mix of tax and survey data, it shows compellingly that income gains in recent decades have gone overwhelmingly to the ultrarich, not the middle class:

Piketty/Saez/Zucman 2017

This is not just another chart. The data it uses directly answers conservative attempts to claim that middle-class incomes really have grown substantially, and that the rich aren't taking all the economic gains. The conservatives argued that the standard data used to illustrate inequality is incomplete; Saez, Piketty, and Zucman have completed it, and demonstrated that income growth has been quite low for the middle class and very unequally distributed between them and the wealthy.

The background context for the new research is that a growing number of conservative economists and policy analysts, most notably Cornell’s Richard Burkhauser and the Joint Economic Committee’s Scott Winship, have argued that even though the data is right, the takeaway message (that the middle class has barely benefited since the 1970s, or that it’s gained a lot less than it should given productivity growth) is false.

They argue that charts like the first two above make a number of choices that cause them to understate how much things have improved for poor and middle-class households. Among them:

They don’t include taxes (including refundable tax credits like the earned income tax credit) or transfer programs (food stamps, Medicaid, etc.) Those help poor and middle-class people more than the rich, and so including them reveals more income growth for people at the bottom and middle.

The charts adjust for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which many economists believe overstates inflation. A slower-growing inflation measure, like the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, shows incomes rising more because less of the increase from the rise in incomes from the 1970s to the present is attributable to inflation.

Many charts about inequality, like the Piketty/Saez one above showing growth in the top 0.1 percent’s share of income, use data from IRS tax returns. That’s great in some ways (you get more data than if you just take a survey, and tax records are more accurate than people’s self-reported incomes), but it necessarily leaves out nontaxable benefits that people get from their employers, like health insurance or pension contributions. A tax return can also come from a single person, a couple with no kids, or a couple with many kids. Because of declining fertility, the number of people in each “tax unit” has declined over the years, meaning more income growth per person than tax data on its own implies.

When you put those factors together, the conservatives’ contention is things aren’t all that bad — the standard of living of middle-class families has grown quite a bit from the 1970s to the present.

Most liberals and leftists concerned with inequality have argued with this not by disputing the underlying numbers but by pointing out that it’s a rather odd conservative defense of the way the economy works.

“So the argument (of the right) has to be: cash market income of the bottom 99 percent of adults has stagnated but the bottom 99 percent get much more expensive private and government provided health care benefits, some more government transfers, and they have fewer kids,” Saez, who pioneered the use of tax data to study inequality, told the New York Times’s Thomas Edsall in 2012. “This does not seem like a great situation, especially from a conservative point of view.”

But the new research by Saez, Piketty, and Zucman suggests that might have been conceding too much. They attempt to track down where all the income in the United States from 1913 to the present has gone: how much has gone to the bottom 20 percent, how much to the top 1 percent, how much to everyone in between.

With the results, called “distributional national accounts,” researchers can see exactly where economic growth is going, and how much each group is seeing its income rise relative to the overall economy.

Crucially, the way that Saez, Piketty, and Zucman calculated the numbers answers basically all of the conservative critiques. They use tax data on incomes as their base, but then fold in the cost of employer-provided health care, pensions, and other benefits, as measured by survey data. They also add in the effect of all taxes and government transfer programs like food stamps or Medicaid. They measure changes in income among adults, rather than households or tax units, meaning changes in family size don’t matter. And they use the slower-growing inflation metric, rather than CPI.

And what do they find? This:

Piketty/Saez/Zucman 2017

The chart above shows how much the incomes of each group grew, on average, every year from 1980 to 2014. The two lines show both pre- and post-tax incomes.

The implication is clear. People at or below the median income saw their incomes rise by 1 percent or less every year during that period. That isn’t nothing, but it’s hardly great. At the very bottom, some people have seen incomes fall pre-tax; while most poor households get government assistance to help with that, programs like food stamps or the earned income tax credit fail to reach about 20 to 25 percent of the people they’re meant to help.

But the rich? Boy, the rich made out like bandits. The top 1 percent, but really the top 0.1, top 0.01, and even top 0.001 percent (that last group included only 2,344 adults in 2014) saw really fast, dramatic growth in their incomes after 1980. Contrary to some recent commentary, the large increase in inequality isn’t due to the top 20 percent; affluent, educated professionals with low-six-figure salaries and nice homes in good suburbs aren’t driving this. Their incomes are growing about 1.5 percent a year — not bad, but not that much better than the middle class either. The major spike is in the top 1 percent (adults receiving an average of $1.31 million per year each out of national income) and above, where annual income grew by 3, 4, 5, even 6 percent.

This doesn’t appear to have been the way the economy worked from, say, 1946 to 1980. On the request of the New York Times’s David Leonhardt (who has a knack for smart suggestions for research from empirically minded economists), Piketty, Saez, and Zucman reproduced the same graph for every 34-year period from 1946 to the present. Here’s how the 1946-1980 graph compares to the 1980-2014 graph:

If the 1980-2014 graph was staggering, the 1946-1980 one is even more so. It shows that the uneven distribution of economic growth in recent decades is not the way things have always been.

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