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thisbibliomaniac · 5 years

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Been a while since I’ve done this so all the asks please and thank

You’re lucky I love you 🙄 1: How tall or short do you wish you were? I’m perfectly average, and I’m good with that

2: What’s your dream pet? (Real or not) A tiger 🐅

3: Do you have a favorite clothing style? Classic 50’s / 60’s

4: What was your favorite video game growing up? Mario kart

5: What three things/people do you think of most each day: My religion, my work, and whatever fiction (book, show, etc) I’m into at the time

6: If you had a warning label, what would yours say? WARNING: DON’T ASK ABOUT HER CATS

7: What is your opinion on [insert person/thing here]? Need a person/thing dude

8: What is your Greek personality type? [Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, or Melancholic] Uhhhhhh idk it’s in my bio

9: Are you ticklish? No

10: Are you allergic to anything? Maybe??¿?

11: What’s your sexuality? Straight

12: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa? TEA

13: Are you a cat or dog person? Cats

14: Would you rather be a vampire, elf, or merperson? Elf

15: Do you have a favorite Youtuber? Crowder

16: How tall are you? 5'5"

17: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to? Anything, I hate my name. I’d ever prefer if it were the French spelling

18: How much do you weigh? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!] No idea tbh

19: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? In the biblical sense 😂

20: Do you like space or the ocean more? Space

21: Are you religious? Very much so

22: Pet peeves? Audible chewing / breathing / snoring

23: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal [opposite of nocturnal]? Diurnal

24: Favorite constellation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

25: Favorite star? How?

26: Do you like ball-jointed dolls? I guess

27: Any phobias or fears? Oh yes

28: Do you think global warming is real? Nope

29: Do you believe in reincarnation? No

30: Favorite movie? Sabrina 1995

31: Do you get scared easily? No

32: How many pets have you own in your lifetime? Family pets? Many. Mine own? Snuggles, and technically part of Stitch

33: Blog rate? [You’ll rate the blog of the one who’s asking.] 23/30

34: What is a color that calms you? Pink

35: Where would you like to travel and/or live? Paris

36: Where were you born? Ohio

37: What is your eye color? Brown

38: Introvert or extrovert? Introvert

39: Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiacs? No

40: Hugs or kisses? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

41: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now? You. Come visit me.

42: Who is someone you love deeply? Obi

43: Any piercings you want? I’d like my second ear piercings back :/

44: Do you like tattoos and piercings? Depends

45: Do you smoke or have you eiver done so? Noooooo

46: Talk about your crush, if you have one! Indians #22 😍

47: What is a sound you really hate? 21 pilots

48: A sound you really love? When Loki sits in the hall and yells

49: Can you do a backflip? Lol no

50: Can you do the splits? LOL no

51: Favorite actor and/or actress? Errol Flynn and Judy Garland

52: Favorite movie? Didn’t I just answer this?

53: How are you feeling right now? Good

54: What color would you like your hair to be right now? I like the color it is

55: When did you feel happiest? Reading

56: Something that calms you down? Crochet

57: Have any mental disorders? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!] LOL probably

58: What does your URL mean? I like books

59: What three words describe you the most? Uh idk you tell me

60: Do you believe in evolution? Noooooooooooo

61: What makes you unfollow a blog? The sight of their url fills me with annoyance

62: What makes you follow a blog? A real person who posts like a real person

63: Favorite kind of person: Lots of people

64: Favorite animal(s): Cats

65: Name three of your favorite blogs. No, too many

66: Favorite emoticon: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

67: Favorite meme: Cow poetry

68: What is your MBTI personality type? Istj

69: What is your star sign? 🌟

70: Can your dog roll over on command, if you have a dog? No, it’s a constant source of amusement

71: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most? None

72: Post a selfie or two? No

73: Do you have platform shoes? No

74: What is one random but interesting fact about yourself? I need another MRI!

75: Can you do a front flip? No

76: Do you like birds? No

77: Do you like to swim? Yes

78: Is swimming or ice skating more fun to you? I used to like both!

79: Something you wish didn’t exist: Taxes. Insurance.

80: Some thing you wish did exist: More space

81: Piercings you have? Ears

82: Something you really enjoy doing: Crochet

83: Favorite person to talk to: Stell

84: What was your first impression of Tumblr? Funny

85: How many followers do you have? I’ve been hovering around 1200 for months

86: Can you run a mile within ten minutes? Idk probably not

87: Do your socks always match? Never

88: Can you touch your toes and keep your legs straight completely? Uhhh idr? Maybe

89: What are your birthstones? I think Pearl?

90: If you were an animal, which one would you be? Cat

91: If a flower could aesthetically represent you, what kind would it be? Plumeria

92: A store you hate? Menards and I’ve never even been there

93: How many cups of coffee can you drink in one day? None!!!!

94: Would you rather be able to fly or read minds? For

95: Do you like to wear camo? No

96: Winter or summer? Winter

97: How long can you hold your breath for? No idea

98: Least favorite person? Rory

99: Someone you look up to: Elinor dashwood

100: A store you love? Earth fare

101: Favorite type of shoes D:

102: Where do you live? Ohio

103: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why? Nope! 104: What is your favorite mineral or gem? Turquoise? 105: Do you drink milk? Sometimes. A2 low temp 106: Do you like bugs? NO 107: Do you like spiders? NOO 108: Something you get paranoid about? SPIDERS 109: Can you draw: No :( 110: Nosiest question you have ever been asked? “Can you draw?” Oh also, “Why no ring?” By a patient I did not like. 111: A question you hate being asked? “How do you feel?” Hate it a lot. 112: Ever been bitten by a spider? Yes :/ 113: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach? Yes 114: Do you prefer cloudy or sunny days? Cloudy 115: Someone you’d like to kiss or cuddle right now: Obi, my puppy 116: Favorite cloud type: Uh. White? 117: What color do you wish the sky was? Pink 118: Do you have freckles? Some. Not as many as id like 119: Favorite thing about a person: Sense of humor 120: Fruits or vegetables? Both!!!! 121: Something you want to do right now: Get some work done, but SOMEONE needed every question answered 122: Is the ocean or sky prettier? Sky 123: Sweet or sour foods? Both 124: Bright or dim lights? Both 125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature? Dragons 126: Something you hate about Tumblr: The users 127: Something you love about Tumblr: The users 128: What do you think about the least? I think about most things a lot 129: What would you want written on your tombstone? That’s one to think about. Suggestions? 130: Who would you like to punch in the face right now? Me. No, whoever invented insurance. 131: What is something you love but also hate about yourself? Everything, but mostly hate 132: Do you smile with your teeth showing for pictures? Yes, because as bad as that is, the alternative is unthinkable 133: Computer or TV? Computer 134: Do you like roller coasters? No 135: Do you get motion sickness or seasickness? No 136: Are your ears lobed or attached? ?? 137: Do you believe in karma? No 138: On a scale of 1-10, how attractive would you say you are? -6 139: What nicknames do you have/have had? N/A 140: Did you have any pretend or imaginary friends? Yes 141: Have you ever seen a therapist/shrink? No 142: Would you say you are a good or bad influence to others? Good I hope 143: Do you prefer giving or receiving gifts/help? Giving 144: What makes you angry Politics, and people who insist on talking about them when you’re really not in the mood 145: How many languages do you speak fluently? None 146: Do you prefer boys, girls, and/or non-binaries? What 😂😂😂😂 147: Are you androgynous? Hahahahhaahhaha 148: Favorite physical thing about yourself: None 149: Favorite thing about your personality: Definitely none 150: Name three people you would like to talk to right now in person. There’s so many questions here 151: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose? 1890 152: Do you like BuzzFeed? No 153: How did you meet your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner? [If you have one.] I didn’t 154: Do you like to kiss others’ foreheads or hands for platonic reasons? No idea 155: Do you like to play with others’ hair? No 156: What embarrasses you? Second hand embarrassment 157: Something that makes you nervous/anxious: Being late 158: Biggest lie you have ever told: Idk 159: How many people are you following? A lot 160: How many posts do you have on your blog(s)? Lots 161: How many drafts do you have on your blog(s)? So many 162: How many likes do you have on your blog(s)? Uhhh 163: Last time you cried and why: No 164: Do you have long or short hair? In between 165: Longest your hair has ever been: Very long 166: Why do you like, dislike, or have neutral feelings about religon? Depends on the religion 167: Do you really care how the universe and world was created? Extremely 168: Do you like to wear makeup? Yes 169: Can you stand on your hands or head for more than thirty seconds? No 170: Did you answer the questions you were asked truthfully? Yes Happy?

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aspdabi · 5 years

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i was tagged by @apocalypse--enthusiast! i mean, my main was tagged but i figure if i do it here then my alters can do their own if they want lmao... thanks so much man! these were fun

height? 5'5"-5'7" havent checked in like 4 years

last think I googled? mystic messenger chat times

favorite musicians? schmekel, kesha, watsky, k.flay, mystery skulls, and they might be giants

song stuck in my head? none right now, im jamming to tunes so?

followers? 163

following? 1554

do I get asks? not really lmao

amount of sleep? anywhere from two to ten hours, though lately its been averaging around 6 with a couple of breaks

lucky number? 13!

what am I wearing? a black class of '19 shirt from the local highschool, boxers, and my usual jewelry (stimtastic comfort level bracelets, eight of my piercings have stainless steel jewelry, and then the bottom ones on my ear have white plastic tunnels)... i should be wearing glasses

instruments I play? i wish

languages I speak? I wish

dream job? mortician

favorite song? ghost by mystery skulls

random fact? of my alters im the one who notices our chronic pain the most, like?? cain can just? walk nearly everything off, cecil just needs ice and hes good to go, the others usually fall around there too but i spend most of my life in braces and bandages and have to use a cane whenever im out and about, its there for everyone but--

aesthetic? long bike rides late at night, pop art, turning up your music until your earbuds buzz, handmade patches on jackets, shadows that dont match the person casting them, the quiet that falls over a near empty train car at night, cigarette smoke, too many eyes, lucky pennies, four leaf clovers and ticket stubs pressed between pages of a poetry journal, neon lights reflecting off of puddles at midnight, bruised knuckles, the taste of blood, dark circles under your eyes, murmuring half forgotten lyrics, pills swallowed with soda, corvid skulls, and laughing with friends in an abandoned building

lmao my first draft of this post got eaten by bad wifi and tumblr being shit so i redid it and here ya go... whoops!

okay, im tagging @hanging-mogami, @mustardsans, @twink-winchester, @vampire4hire, @sociopathic-sweetie (you wont), and anyone else who might want to do it! seriously i encourage it lmao, it was fun

#about me #ask to tag

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drzito · 6 years

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Las 241 películas que he visto en 2018 (parte 2)

121. El jefe de todo esto (Lars von Trier, 2006).

122. La muchacha que saltaba a través del tiempo (Mamoru Hosoda, 2006)

123. The devil wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)

124. À l'intérieur (Julien Maury y Alexandre Bustillo, 2007)

125. Casual day (Max Lemcke, 2007).

126. Concursante (Rodrigo Cortes, 2007)

127. It’s a free world (Ken Loach, 2007)

128. La question humaine (Nicholas Klotz, 2007)

129. Los falsificadores (Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007).

130. August (Austin Chick, 2008)

131. Bienvenido a Farewell-Gutmann (Xavi Puebla, 2008)

132. Flash of genius (Marc Abraham, 2008)

133. Gigantes de Valdes (Alejandro Tossenberger, 2008)

134. Slumdog millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)

135. Tokyo sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)

136. Exam (Stuart Hazeldine, 2009)

137. New in town (Jonas Elmer, 2009)

138. Rien de personnel (Mathias Gokalp, 2009)

139. The box (Richard Kelly, 2009)

140. The damned united (Tom Hooper, 2009)

141. The informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)

142. The scam (Lee Ho-Jae, 2009)

143. Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole, 2010)

144. Notre jour vindra (Romain Gavras, 2010)

145. También la lluvia (Iciar Bollain, 2010)

146. Wall Street: Money never sleeps (Oliver Stone, 2010)

147. Cinco metros cuadrados (Max Lemcke, 2011)

148. Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)

149. The adjustment bureau (George Nolfi, 2011)

150. A puerta fría (Xavi Puebla, 2012)

151. Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012)

152. Beasts of the Southern wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)

153. Le capital (Costa-Gavras, 2012)

154. Promised land (Gus van Sant, 2012)

155. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, 2012).

156. Total recall (Len Wiseman, 2012)

157. Upside down (Juan Solanas, 2012)

158. Il capitale humano (Paolo Virzi, 2013)

159. These final hours (Zak Hilditch, 2013)

160. The internship (Shawn Levy, 2013)

161. The shadow people (Matthew Arnold, 2013)

162. Creep (Patrick Kack-Brice, 2014)

163. Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre Dardenne y Luc Dardenne, 2014)

164. Draft day (Ivan Reitman, 2014)

165. El futuro (Luis Lopez Carrasco, 2014)

166. Hermosa juventud (Jaime Rosales, 2014)

167. Jack Ryan: Shadow recruit (Kenneth Branagh, 2014)

168. Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014)

169. Stonehearst asylum (Brad Anderson, 2014)

170. The one I love (Charlie McDowell, 2014)

171. 99 homes (Ramin Bahrani, 2015)

172. Amama (Asier Altuna, 2015).

173. Cerca de tu casa (Eduard Cortes, 2015)

174. Daddy’s home (Sean Anders, 2015)

175. El desconocido (Dani de la Torre, 2015)

176. Eye in the sky (Gavin Hood, 2015)

177. La loi du marche (Stephane Brize, 2015)

178. Techo y comida (Juan Miguel del Castillo, 2015)

179. Ares (Jean-Patrick Benes, 2016)

180. Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016)

181. Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016)

182. Esa sensación (Juan Cavestany, Julian Genisson y Pablo Hernando, 2016)

183. Gold (Stephen Gaghan, 2016)

184. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016).

185. Kubo and the two strings (Travis Knight, 2016)

186. La doncella (Park Chan-Wook, 2016)

187. La punta del iceberg (David Canovas, 2016)

188. Los del túnel (Pepon Montero, 2016)

189. L’outsider (Christophe Barratier, 2016)

190. Money Monster (Jodie Foster, 2016).

191. Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno y Shinji Higuchi, 2016)

192. Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)

193. Teenage mutant nija turtles: Out of the shadows (Dave Green, 2016)

194. The brothers Grimsby (Louis Leterrier, 2016)

195. The founder (John Lee Hancock, 2016)

196. The love witch (Anna Biller, 2016)

197. The Osiris child (Shane Abbess, 2016)

198. The shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2016).

199. The thinning (Michael J. Gallagher, 2016)

200. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)

201. Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)

202. Zootopia (Byron Howard y Rich Moore, 2016).

203. Atomic blonde (David Leitch, 2017)

204. All the money in the world (Ridley Scott, 2017)

205. Brava (Roser Aguilar, 2017)

206. Corporate (Nicolas Silhol, 2017)

207. Creep 2 ( Patrick Kack-Brice , 2017)

208. Daddy’s home 2 (Sean Anders, 2017)

209. Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow, 2017)

210. Estiu 1993 (Carla Simon, 2017)

211. Fe de etarras (Borja Cobeaga, 2017)

212. I don’t feel at home in this world anymore (Macon Blair, 2017)

213. It comes at night (Trey Edward Shults, 2017)

214. La llamada (Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo, 2017).

215. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh, 2017)

216. Numero Une (Tonie Marshall, 2017)

217. Pieles (Eduardo Casanova, 2017).

218. Selfie (Victor Garcia Leon, 2017)

219. The disaster artist (James Franco, 2017)

220. The lost city of Z (James Gray, 2017)

221. The post (Steven Spielberg, 2017)

222. The sacrifice of a sacred deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)

223. The shape of water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)

224. Tulip fever (James Chadwick, 2017)

225. Under the shadow (Babak Anvari, 2017)

226. You were never really here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017)

227. Anihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)

228. Ant-man and The Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018)

230. Avengers: Inifinity War (Anthony y Joe Russo, 2018)

231. Batman: Gotham by gaslight (Sam Liu, 2018)

232. Batman ninja (Junpei Mizusaki, 2018)

233. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)

234. Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018).

235. Hotel Transylvania 3: summer vacation (Genndy Tartakovsky, 2018)

236. Jurassic World: Fallen kingdom (JA BAyona, 2018)

237. Mission Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018).

238. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti Jr. y Rodney Rothman, 2018)

239. Teen titans go! to the movies (Peter Rida Michail y Aaron Horvath, 2018)

240. The incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018)

241. The night comes for us (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018)

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florchis · 6 years

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Q&A

Rules: Answer 30 questions. Tag 10 blogs you want to get to know better

Tagged by @agentofserenity and @loved-the-stars-too-fondly . Thank you!

Nickname(s): Florchis is a nickname

Gender: Female

Sign: Libra

Height: 163 cm, which means... 5′ 4′’ something?? Why is this metric system so weird???

Time: 23.47

Fave band(s): La Oreja de Van Gogh. Of Monsters and Men. Amaral. La Chicana.

Fave solo artist(s): Jason Mraz. Gabrielle Aplin. Pablo Alborán. Joaquin Sabina.

Song stuck in my head: Riding to New York - Passenger

Last movie I saw: Professor Marston and The Wonder Women (people, watch it, it’s so good!!! But definitely M-rated)

Last show I watched: Naruto Shippuden

When did I create my blog: 2012-2013-ish? It was an on-and-off thing until I joined the AOS fandom, though.

What do I post: plenty of fandoms, pretty images/pretty people, my writing, fandom/writing posts.

Last thing I googled: The song I linked up there. Before that... “head-boy HP”.

Do I have any other blogs: Nope.

Do I get asks: I have an irregular influx of prompts asks and every once in a while some nice anon with either a personal message or a positivity meme (I have one about my favourite fics written by me in my drafts, I got it, anon, I’m just sitting on it because I’m not feeling a lot of positivity towards my writing lately, sorry!)

Why did I choose my url: it’s a cool nickname, and it’s pretty personal.

Following: 258

Followed by: 367

Average hours of sleep: ~5 on weekdays, ~9 on weekends.

Lucky number: 8

Instruments: :(

What I am wearing: pijamas and a thread-bare sweater I adore.

Dream job: translation? writing? trophy-wife? Dunno, something that is rewarding and where making things right count? Yeah, I’m salty about my job

Dream trip: Long, luxury trip wherever without having to take money into consideration.

Fave food: everything made with potatoes.

Nationality: argentinian

Fave song: ???

Last book I read: La Virgen Cabeza by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Top 3 fictional universes I wanna join: I’m not that much for joining universes, which is to show how not adventurous I am!

Tagging- if you want!: @whistlingwindtree , @huntxngbxrd , @emofitz , @agentmmayy and, um, dunno, whoever feels like doing it, tag me on it, wanna know you better!

#personal #florchis #meme

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thelionshoarde · 7 years

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the magnificent @sabraeal got me, :3 :3

1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?

It’s from an unfinished short story I wrote back in 2014: It was awful business working in the Lion’s Hoarde Inn. I think I just enjoyed the sound of it, (:

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/favorites, follows/subscriptions, visitor hits, kudos)

Some Nights, my first Teen Wolf fic. People really love pack mom!Stiles, apparently lol.

3. What is your FFnNet/AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?

O PUREST ONE. It’s from a fanart I’m still chipping away at. Because: it made @superhappybubbleslove go WAAAAHHHHHH MY HEAAARRRRTT and I enjoy making wonderful people suffer! :D

4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?

Things are about to get real lengthy, so...

@sabraeal, of course, is a dream come true, and is currently back at it with her long reviews, and BE STILL MY HEART. @superhappybubbleslove kicks ass every Saturday with her amazingness (and often is the only, or one of the only ones, to comment on a very particular thing that i really loved about a story or art, and i always fist pump whenever she does that hahaha) @claudeng80 has given me some of my favorite comments, EVER, and I often have to take a day or more to process my emotions before I can actually respond coherently haha, I GET VERY EXCITED, OKAY. @hidetheremote is one of my most faithful and kind and generous commenters, I am always thrilled to receive them and she’s been showering me with encouragement since the beginning, so she has a VERY special place in my heart! I have a few commenters on my ot3 things that are incredibly kind, or people who have bookmarked/kudo’d almost all of them, and while I do not believe I know their tumblr handles, but I would sell my first born for you. :| special shout out to @vfordii and @stuffaeamade and @raediation who are always SO supportive of my obizenyuki feels hahaha! @youseimanami is a one woman cheer squad and AMAZING, so kind and so so sweet, and her comments always feel SO genuine, they just make my heart get all swelled up and fuzzy and warm, I love her! I know I’m forgetting people, but I LOVE YOU ALL, YOU ARE ALL MY FAVORITES D;

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

I cycle through over time. There are a lot of older, long fics in other fandoms that I occasionally go back to when I need a pick-me up lol. Currently, there is I KID YOU NOT a south park kenny/kyle fic that I’m in love with and have read 2-3 times in the last couple months since I first read it and I WILL PROBABLY INDULGE AGAIN, SOON. (gold digger, IT IS AMAZING, OKAY)

6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?

I actually never figured out how to subscribe! 8D I have 86 bookmarks, but it should be more. I went through a year long period I think where I never signed into ao3 lol.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

MAGIC. In some form or another lol.

8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)

163 user subscriptions, and 2604 bookmarks. (some nights has 1912 bookmarks all on its own, okay, teen wolf is a v v large ocean of a fandom haha)

9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

N O P E, i have no shame filter 8D .....ok, wait, the a/b/o one because it’s omega!obi and i’ve been a tad leery of the response i may receive for how very, uh, not your usual obiyuki dynamic in bed i want to make it. >_>

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.

Hn, yes and yes and yes and yes. My big thing is: I want to learn how to finish lengthier things. I got into fandom to try and do that, and it’s my goal for this year, especially.

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?

Rarepairs, I think! Even when I write popular ships I usually write them in the less popular fashion haha. But mostly, I just write whatever I want, which is often a myriad of different pairings!

12. How many stories have you posted on FFNet/AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)?

13 stories on ffnet, and a few of those were also on my livejournal. I don’t have an exact number for livejournal, but it’s over 100. I’ve started moving some of those fics from my livejournal to ao3, now, so I’m up to 40. Only 23 of my ao3 stories aren’t also on livejournal at this moment lol. And there are a couple of things on tumblr I haven’t moved onto ao3 yet.

13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?

I am unwilling to go down that dark and dangerous path. :|

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

I try and write down whatever jumps in my head, because I WILL forget things, otherwise. But I’ll spend days mulling over an idea, sometimes, before I am able to sit down and write it.

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

Back in eljay days I wrote stories with other people on occasion. Sometimes it was just writing comment fic back and forth at each other. Or writing different scenes in the same universe that went together. Nothing big.

16. How did you discover FFNet/AO3?

I know I stumbled on ffnet myself, but I don’t remember for ao3. O: Pretty certain someone told me about it, but when I had livejournal I didn’t really use anything else.

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on FFNet/AO3?

Hm, I’ve never been a widely popular anything, though I was lucky enough to have some excellent fans on eljay, who would jump fandoms with me just because they wanted to read my stuff. And folk who were incredibly kind and generous with their praise no matter how many random things I churned out haha. I’ve always been thrilled if there’s just ONE person who enjoyed a story I put out! I’m pretty easy to please!

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?

My darlings!

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

Anyone who writes is an inspiration to me. I see people putting up fic and publishing novels, and I go I WANT TO DO THAT, UGH. Because I’ve always been a writer, ever since I was teeny, and have never stopped wanting to do it. I’ve always been in love with words, and stories. (As I’m sure many others can relate: I used to get in trouble in elementary school because I would read as I walked, and it was EARLY elementary school, where you had to walk in lines with your class because they were afraid they were gonna lose you, and I could read while I walked because I would just follow whoever was in front of me to wherever we were going haha)

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

It’s 100% okay if you write something, and you’re really proud of it, and you go back later -- a week, a day, a month, two years, whatever -- and think: THIS IS THE WORST. That doesn’t ever really go away, because as creators we are constantly evolving and looking to improve, and often times something that is actually quite solid and gives many readers joy will be a thing that you facepalm over, later. Use that to keep writing, and try to remember that you are most definitely your own worst critic. At the end of the day, keep doing this thing because you love it. Your work IS worthy, even when you think it should be set on fire and scattered across the deepest ocean never to be seen again!

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

A combo! Sometimes, especially for shorter things, I just get an idea, and sometimes I just think about it for a little while, and then I open a doc and I just go to town until it’s finished. Other times I start off by writing out the thoughts and building off of that, and sometimes I slip into actually writing it and then back to outlining. USUALLY I start writing a thing because I have a tiny spark of an idea, or a situation/concept I find interesting, and I have no idea where it’s going, and I just write to see what happens, and THEN I start plotting things out as I go, which can be one of the MOST frustrating ways to write a story. Anything big I’ve ever written (and I’ve written several drafts of several novels) starts out like this, where I have a random idea and I sit down and I write out whatever scenes crop up in my head, and then I start filling in the blanks, later. A lot of my longer fandom things also are like this. heading for a small disaster was me just sort of sitting around and thinking about an entirely different story, and then I had like, a half-formed idea for a single scene in my head, so I sat down and started writing chapter 1 to GET to that scene, coming up with stuff as I needed it, and by the time I hit the end of ch1 I was no where near my original idea, and had a bunch of other ideas, and THEN I started plotting things out.

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

I’m sure I have! Though I haven’t posted fandom anything for a long time, so I don’t really remember. One comment I do recall was not a BAD comment, it was a comment about a bad thing I had done in neglecting to tag something, and then I got all defensive because I was younger and even more stupid than I am now, and I was an asshole, which I regret. ):

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)

Action! Also, stationary scenes with multiple people that DOESN’T have action! Okay, ANY scene that has more than one person is tricky, though two people at least helps in pacing because it’s easier to intersperse dialogue, but you add one more person into a scene and I’m laying my head on my desk and CRYING. Transition scenes are also my bane, I have the hardest time figuring out how to move from point a to b. Basically: EVERYTHING IS DIFFICULT. That’s half the fun of writing something, though.

24. What story(s) are you working on now?

Too many, but I’m trying to focus on finishing up some longer things this year. Of course, despite that having been my resolution before the year even began, I have somehow found myself with two new longer fics than WHEN THE YEAR STARTED, ugh. disaster, magic!cowboy au, lyrias center, unicorn au, soulmate tattoo au, a second part to we can make our own way, the full version of back alley complete with smut and EMOTIONS, fight club au, ot3 modern day neighbors au, and all the christmas prompts I haven’t done yet, and I have like, two more chapters of picture perfect planned out that I just haven’t written yet, I AM HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME THINNING THE HERD, I 100% come up with more ideas than ever get written, as I’m sure most writers do haha.

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)?

HAHAHA

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself?

Nah, I almost never succeed at stuff like that, and I get pissy if I fail, so I’ve learned not to put myself into that position if I can, because it just hurts my writing. I just write when I want, or when I have time even if I don’t want.

27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started?

Hopefully! Though posting old stuff to ao3 has made me aware that my vocabulary has actually suffered over time, and I’m hoping to fix that!

28. What is your favorite story(s) that you’ve written?

I don’t entirely love anything that I’ve written. There are aspects of many things that I love dearly, though none of it really wins out against another. I’ll say: three of my orig novels are probably closest to being no 1.

29. What is your least favorite story(s) that you’ve written?

There was this one HP fic I wrote when I was like, 14?? I don’t know, but apparently I was VERY ANGRY, and wrote some really messed up stuff, and I wouldn’t mind being able to bury that shit haha. But truthfully -- I probably grew a lot from it, as embarrassing as it is to me, now. ...okay, there was a LOT of HP fic wherein I was in my DARK AND ANGSTY years, that, whew! I’m glad I’m not that person anymore haha.

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

Still writing, hopefully. :3

31. What is the easiest thing about writing?

CRYING. Crying is very easy, and so is laying my head on my desk and despairing that I will ever figure out how to make things work.

32. What is the hardest thing about writing?

WORKING THROUGH THE TEARS. It is very easy to give up, and mope, much more difficult to grit your teeth and wrangle a story into submission.

33. Why do you write?

Because I love the power of words. It’s magic. A written story is essentially an illusion spell. You put the right words on the page in the correct order, and behold! An entire world, with living characters, is born within the mind of a reader. And a single, minute change to any one of those words may shift the whole thing. It’s a constantly evolving formula, and full of surprises, and if you are particularly lucky and diligent you might even be able to spin an entire tale that grips people, shakes them up and makes them believe in something impossible, something that YOU created, from nearly nothing. That kind of power is pretty damned addictive.

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1-170. :~}

youre lucky i love you

1: How tall or short do you wish you were?

i’m alright with my height, i’m average

2: What’s your dream pet? (Real or not)

a french bulldog

3: Do you have a favorite clothing style?

i usually wear a video game/pop punk band/power rangers shirt with jeans and sneakers. if i need a haircut i’ll wear a beanie or snapback

4: What was your favorite video game growing up?

sonic on sega genesis

5: What three things/people do you think of most each day:

i think about you, me, and my dog tbh

6: If you had a warning label, what would yours say?

caution: anxious piece of shit

7: What is your opinion on [insert person/thing here]?

u done goofed

8: What is your Greek personality type? [Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, or Melancholic]

melancholic gee what a surprise

9: Are you ticklish?

yes very

10: Are you allergic to anything?

basically everything outside

11: What’s your sexuality?

pan i guess

12: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa?

coffee, then tea, and then cocoa

13: Are you a cat or dog person?

both

14: Would you rather be a vampire, elf, or merperson?

vampire

15: Do you have a favorite Youtuber?

i don’t have a favorite youtuber per se but i really like braille skateboarding, green beetle, and db knives

16: How tall are you?

5′6

17: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?

probably alexander

18: How much do you weigh? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!]

around 210, which i’m working on changing

19: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits?

yes

20: Do you like space or the ocean more?

neither

21: Are you religious?

22: Pet peeves?

my biggest pet peeve is when people touch my stuff and don’t put it back properly and when someone finishes the rest of something without asking anyone else if they want any

23: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal [opposite of nocturnal]?

nocturnal

24: Favorite constellation?

tbh i don’t have one

25: Favorite star?

also don’t have one

26: Do you like ball-jointed dolls?

fuck no

27: Any phobias or fears?

basically everything

28: Do you think global warming is real?

yes

29: Do you believe in reincarnation?

i honestly don’t know

30: Favorite movie?

chicago

31: Do you get scared easily?

very

32: How many pets have you own in your lifetime?

33: Blog rate? [You’ll rate the blog of the one who’s asking.]

0/10 ;)

34: What is a color that calms you?

black or grey

35: Where would you like to travel and/or live?

i’d like to live in a scottish moor or something similar

36: Where were you born?

worcester massachusetts

37: What is your eye color?

very dark brown

38: Introvert or extrovert?

introvert

39: Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiacs?

i don’t know tbh

40: Hugs or kisses?

both

41: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now?

you

42: Who is someone you love deeply?

i don’t really know how to answer this

43: Any piercings you want?

i wanna get a cartilage piercing and i want my nips pierced

44: Do you like tattoos and piercings?

yes very much

45: Do you smoke or have you eiver done so?

yep

46: Talk about your crush, if you have one!

nope

47: What is a sound you really hate?

chewing

48: A sound you really love?

campfires

49: Can you do a backflip?

fuck no

50: Can you do the splits?

also fuck no

51: Favorite actor and/or actress?

i don’t really have one

52: Favorite movie?

already answered

53: How are you feeling right now?

tired and kinda sad

54: What color would you like your hair to be right now?

i like it the way it is

55: When did you feel happiest?

i don’t know. i felt really good while i was in love but idk honestly

56: Something that calms you down?

watching videos on youtube

57: Have any mental disorders? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!]

yeah like three

58: What does your URL mean?

it used to be a longstanding joke but i had to modify it to accommodate my gender

59: What three words describe you the most?

anxious, tired, sad

60: Do you believe in evolution?

yes

61: What makes you unfollow a blog?

shitty opinions

62: What makes you follow a blog?

if they post stuff i like

63: Favorite kind of person:

someone who’s nice and accepts me for me and laughs at my shitty jokes

64: Favorite animal(s):

dogs, cats, bears, bats, basically every animal tbh

65: Name three of your favorite blogs.

yours, and i really don’t have any others tbh

66: Favorite emoticon:

the crossed swords

67: Favorite meme:

anything with a dog or cat

68: What is your MBTI personality type?

infj-t

69: What is your star sign?

aries

70: Can your dog roll over on command, if you have a dog?

fuck no

71: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most?

my neck deep shirt with either black or grey jeans

72: Post a selfie or two?

hell no

73: Do you have platform shoes?

nope

74: What is one random but interesting fact about yourself?

i’m not interesting at all but i guess i can tell you all that i really like watching documentaries

75: Can you do a front flip?

nope

76: Do you like birds?

sure

77: Do you like to swim?

78: Is swimming or ice skating more fun to you?

neither

79: Something you wish didn’t exist:

80: Some thing you wish did exist:

my love life

81: Piercings you have?

septum, used to have stretched ears, and had two piercings on each ear

82: Something you really enjoy doing:

watching videos and cuddling

83: Favorite person to talk to:

you

84: What was your first impression of Tumblr?

i thought it was a lot to take in at first

85: How many followers do you have?

1239

86: Can you run a mile within ten minutes?

nope

87: Do your socks always match?

most of the time yes

88: Can you touch your toes and keep your legs straight completely?

yep

89: What are your birthstones?

diamond

90: If you were an animal, which one would you be?

i’d wanna be a wolf tbh

91: If a flower could aesthetically represent you, what kind would it be?

probably something dead

92: A store you hate?

walmart

93: How many cups of coffee can you drink in one day?

one

94: Would you rather be able to fly or read minds?

fly

95: Do you like to wear camo?

96: Winter or summer?

neither

97: How long can you hold your breath for?

probably like fifteen seconds or something

98: Least favorite person?

myself

99: Someone you look up to:

idk

100: A store you love?

hardware stores

101: Favorite type of shoes

i love my stefan janoskis

102: Where do you live?

rhode island

103: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why?

neither

104: What is your favorite mineral or gem?

i like obsidian

105: Do you drink milk?

yes

106: Do you like bugs?

nope

107: Do you like spiders?

fuck no

108: Something you get paranoid about?

everything

109: Can you draw:

nope

110: Nosiest question you have ever been asked?

i don’t know honestly, i don’t really like being asked questions about myself which is hilarious considering my current state

111: A question you hate being asked?

see above

112: Ever been bitten by a spider?

i don’t think so

113: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach?

yes

114: Do you prefer cloudy or sunny days?

cloudy

115: Someone you’d like to kiss or cuddle right now:

pass

116: Favorite cloud type:

the ones that look like clouds

117: What color do you wish the sky was?

idk honestly

118: Do you have freckles?

yes i hate them

119: Favorite thing about a person:

sense of humor

120: Fruits or vegetables?

fruit

121: Something you want to do right now:

die

122: Is the ocean or sky prettier?

sky

123: Sweet or sour foods?

sour

124: Bright or dim lights?

dim

125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature?

not really tbh

126: Something you hate about Tumblr:

everything

127: Something you love about Tumblr:

the sense of camaraderie i guess

128: What do you think about the least?

probably what i’m going to do with my life

129: What would you want written on your tombstone?

don’t worry about me, because i say that a lot

130: Who would you like to punch in the face right now?

myself

131: What is something you love but also hate about yourself?

i don’t really love anything

132: Do you smile with your teeth showing for pictures?

133: Computer or TV?

computer

134: Do you like roller coasters?

135: Do you get motion sickness or seasickness?

yes

136: Are your ears lobed or attached?

attached

137: Do you believe in karma?

yes

138: On a scale of 1-10, how attractive would you say you are?

0139: What nicknames do you have/have had?

al, alex, allie, pinhead larry

140: Did you have any pretend or imaginary friends?

probably

141: Have you ever seen a therapist/shrink?

yes

142: Would you say you are a good or bad influence to others?

i’d say i’m pretty shit so

143: Do you prefer giving or receiving gifts/help?

giving

144: What makes you angry

everything

145: How many languages do you speak fluently?

just english

146: Do you prefer boys, girls, and/or non-binaries?

girls and nbs tbh

147: Are you androgynous?

i guess

148: Favorite physical thing about yourself:

my arms i guess

149: Favorite thing about your personality:

nothing

150: Name three people you would like to talk to right now in person.

just you

151: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose?

death

152: Do you like BuzzFeed?

i like taking the stupid quizzes and seeing the lists of cool/useless shit to buy

153: How did you meet your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner? [If you have one.]

don’t have one

154: Do you like to kiss others’ foreheads or hands for platonic reasons?

depends on who it is

155: Do you like to play with others’ hair?

also depends

156: What embarrasses you?

everything

157: Something that makes you nervous/anxious:

also everything

158: Biggest lie you have ever told:

probably something about me being fine

159: How many people are you following?

870

160: How many posts do you have on your blog(s)?

114,727

161: How many drafts do you have on your blog(s)?

0162: How many likes do you have on your blog(s)?

5628

163: Last time you cried and why:

yesterday, something my dad said to me

164: Do you have long or short hair?

short although it’s getting shaggy

165: Longest your hair has ever been:

a little past my shoulders

166: Why do you like, dislike, or have neutral feelings about religon?

i have neutral feelings because sometimes people just need to believe in something to feel safe/happy and if it doesn’t hurt anyone else then i don’t mind

167: Do you really care how the universe and world was created?

nope

168: Do you like to wear makeup?

nope

169: Can you stand on your hands or head for more than thirty seconds?

hell no

170: Did you answer the questions you were asked truthfully?

mostly

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After Jacob deGrom and Corey Kluber, Stetson University Dreams Even Bigger

DELAND, Fla. — Pete Dunn, the former baseball coach at Stetson University, wore sandals and a trucker hat with “Fish Hippie” emblazoned across the front as he strolled past a bronze bust of his face and stood behind home plate at Melching Field.

In the distance, he eyed the two greatest catches of his 37-year career. To the left of the 403-foot marker on the center field wall were two giant images of pitcher Jacob deGrom along with his professional credentials: 2014 rookie of the year and 2018 Cy Young Award winner in the National League. To the right was a photo of Cleveland Indians pitcher Corey Kluber, the Cy Young winner in the American League in 2014 and 2017.

When Kluber first saw his display, he had a quibble. “You’ve got a picture of me throwing a damn changeup!” Dunn recalled Kluber saying.

Dunn demurred at the nit-picking. It is a pitcher’s ballpark, after all.

“I’ll go to my grave, that year Jacob won rookie of the year and Klubes won the Cy Young, both from little old Stetson,” he said. “Pretty cool.”

Little old Stetson is no longer being overlooked. Last season, it was Logan Gilbert, a 6-foot-6 righty with a fastball touching 97 miles per hour, who drew scouts to the private college of about 3,100 undergraduates. Gilbert led the nation with 163 strikeouts and became the first Hatter selected in the first round of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft when Seattle picked him at No. 14.

In the wake of deGrom, Kluber and now Gilbert, Stetson coaches have honed their recruiting pitch, branding the midmajor program as a hotbed for hurlers looking to develop into Cy Young winners. When recruits enter Coach Steve Trimper’s office, Stetson jerseys with Kluber and deGrom’s names and college numbers stitched into them occupy prime space on a bookcase filled with the 2018 team’s accomplishments. Across the room hang whiteboards with the names of commits from the high school classes of 2019-21 written on them.

“They’re constantly promoting it,” Gilbert said. “Heads turn looking for who’s next. A little bit to live up to.”

Gilbert and his teammates did their part last year. The Stetson pitching staff led the nation in E.R.A. (2.66), strikeouts (635), and had five pitchers selected in the 2018 M.L.B. draft after the Hatters reached their first-ever Super Regional in the N.C.A.A. tournament. The sustained success has allowed Stetson to close the gap in college baseball’s arms race, as well. Over the last two years, the program has renovated its coaches offices, locker room and players lounge. Administrators are working on a new lease for its 20-year-old ballpark and are planning the addition of field-level seats for the first time, as well.

“We’re going to try to compete on the national stage,” said Trimper, who took over for Dunn in 2016.

Dunn saw it all develop over the last half-century. He grew up in Vero Beach, Fla., and made his way to campus as a catcher in 1968, when Stetson shared its stadium with the Red Sox’s Class AAA team (he remembered a farmhand named Carlton Fisk being called up from nearby Ocala for the Sox).

Dunn says he “couldn’t hit the ball with a paddle” as a player, but the Kansas City Royals drafted him in the 36th round of the 1970 draft and he spent two seasons in the minors. He returned to Stetson as an assistant coach in 1974 before taking the managerial reins five years later.

Dunn, now 70, won 1,312 games and watched 84 of his players go on to professional baseball. Nine made it to the majors.

The Cy Young winners just missed each other. Kluber came first. The Stetson staff came across him by accident at a recruiting showcase on Florida’s East Coast, where they were scouting another player. Unimpressed with the intended target, Dunn’s assistant reported back that he “found a guy.”

Once in school, he was underwhelming his freshman and sophomore seasons before exploding with a 12-2 record, 2.05 E.R.A. and 117 strikeouts as a junior in 2007. Undrafted previously, the San Diego Padres picked him in the fourth round of that summer’s amateur draft.

“Point of pride for any program,” Dunn said. “We’ve been able to develop a few.”

Enter deGrom, from nearby De Leon Springs, a no-stoplight town 10 miles north of campus. After playing primarily as a third baseman and shortstop his first two seasons, his arm led him to the rubber, where he was first used in relief. It wasn’t long, though, before he was the team’s ace.

He got over his initial reluctance to switch positions, but he kept his swing in tune. His most memorable at-bat came in the opening game of the 2010 Atlantic Sun conference tournament in Nashville. Starting on the mound that day, deGrom smashed a home run off a lanky Florida Gulf Coast pitcher named Chris Sale. DeGrom downplayed it as lucky; Sale allowed that he crushed it.

Sale rebounded to win that day, and it wound up being deGrom’s last start for Stetson. He left school after the Mets selected him as a pitcher in the ninth round.

DeGrom still lives in the area during the off-season. He returned to Stetson to throw out a first pitch after his rookie season and served as an official starter, along with members of the current Stetson team, for a local 5K race for charity last winter. Trimper, who happened upon the Mets ace at the Firehouse Subs in town shortly after he was hired in 2016, has incorporated deGrom and Kluber into his presentation for high school prospects.

“You got to tangle with the big boys,” said Trimper of his recruiting efforts. “You can’t worry about what you don’t have.”

There have been signs of growth. During a rain delay at Melching Field when Stetson was hosting an N.C.A.A. tournament regional for the first time, a group of alumni were draining bottles of beer to pass the time. High on the success of a team in the midst of an 18-game win streak, contributions started to flow, too. It ended up being the single largest fund-raising day for Stetson baseball.

“They were enjoying some adult refreshments, and they got caught up in committing to contribute to support the baseball team,” Altier said. “I don’t think they were drunk.”

He added: “The success just elevated our opinion of ourselves.”

The major-league accomplishments of its shortstop-turned-ace certainly haven’t hurt, either. DeGrom’s father, Tony, a longtime AT&T employee, can see the banners outside Melching Field when he drives by the stadium.

“You look up there and you go, ‘Wow,” Tony deGrom said. “It’s a little humbling.”

Tony deGrom hasn’t been back to a Stetson game since his son left, but others still keep score. A group of older locals call themselves the Bleacher Creatures, and they position themselves by the visiting dugout on the third base line. They hold up cards that note how many strikeouts the Stetson pitching staff has recorded.

“Psychological warfare,” said Carter Smith, a retiree.

On Wednesday, there were no hits to post at Melching Field. Three Stetson pitchers — a sophomore, a freshman and a senior — combined to throw a no-hitter against Florida State, the blue-blood program Stetson has long looked up to in the rankings. Chipper Jones, a DeLand native who is Dunn’s godson and tracks the program from his home in Georgia, awoke to the news Thursday.

“It warms my heart,” Jones said. “Maybe it’s just the small-town, blue-collar, chip-on-your-shoulder underdog in me. That’s another big feather in your cap.”

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Ramblings: Schmaltz Signs, Ovechkin Gets His 50th, Rakell Coming On Late (Mar 31)

First off, thank you to Dobber himself for covering for me yesterday while I had a fantasy baseball draft. I appreciate being able to let my mind unwind after a three-hour auction draft.

To any “hockey purists” who are wondering why I would do such a thing, yes, I do play other fantasy sports. I am of course a hockey fan and it is the sport I follow most closely, but I’m also a fantasy sports enthusiast. I need to be engaged in fantasy sports 12 months of the year, and by that I mean active and playing in a league. Just as you might watch or play other sports or activities during hockey’s offseason, the same is true with fantasy sports. That’s how I got into baseball as a boy – I needed to follow (and eventually play) a summer sport after hockey went into offseason mode. I like and need to reflect on the past season and also plan ahead to next season, but there’s only so much of that I can do. My competitive nature needs its continuous fix.

All right, now that I’ve gotten that non-serious rant out of the way, let’s move into the business of Saturday.

The Coyotes have signed forward Nick Schmaltz to a seven-year extension. According to Cap Friendly, the new contract has an unconfirmed cap hit of $5.85 million. This might seem like a lengthy extension for a player that has cracked 50 points just once in three seasons, but remember that the Coyotes coveted him enough to pay a significant price (Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini) just to acquire him. Regardless, he had fit in well with his new team (14 points in 17 games) before suffering a season-ending knee injury. Even though the trade may appear heavily weighted in Chicago’s favor, the trade is one of those that could still work out well for both teams. Salary cap owners would likely prefer to see more sustained production before investing, though.

In what could be his last start in Boston, Roberto Luongo stopped 30 of 31 shots he faced to backstop the Panthers to a 4-1 win. It was nice to see Lu stand out in this game, particularly since the TD Garden has been a house of horrors for him (think the 2011 Stanley Cup Final when he was on the Canucks). Speaking of the Canucks, they have to be hoping that Luongo either extends his career or goes on LTIR with something that’s been ailing him this season. They face a significant cap recapture penalty should Luongo announce his retirement.

Evgenii Dadonov continues to pile up the points. With two goals on Saturday, Dadonov is up to 19 points his last 13 games. Linemates have a lot to do with it, as Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau have also been piling up the points. Dadonov is only two goals shy of 30 and two points shy of 70.

The Cam Talbot era in Philly might be short-lived, but at least he made another start on Saturday (just his second since being acquired). Talbot allowed three goals on 30 shots in the Flyers’ 5-2 loss to Carolina. Now that the Flyers have been eliminated, the Flyers might start Talbot one or two more times as they play out the string. With this being the second consecutive season that Talbot has posted a goals-against average over 3.00, he probably won’t be considered a starter anywhere. Instead, expect him to land as a backup or at best a timeshare somewhere.

You can preorder your Playoff Draft List here, and it will be ready for download on Friday April 5. Remember that it is fully customizable, which is great to account for the many possible scenarios that could occur as far as playoff teams advancing.

The first of Alex Ovechkin’s two goals on Saturday was his 50th of the season, which makes him the first player to reach that milestone in 2018-19. The Great 8 now has eight 50-goal seasons, matching his jersey number. Only Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy have more. So if the 33-year-old Ovechkin still has another 50-goal season or two left in the tank, he would end up at the top of the list below! His current total is still a particularly impressive achievement, considering that both Gretzky and Bossy played when scoring was at an all-time high while Ovie has played when 50-goal scorers have been unicorns.

#ALLCAPS Alex Ovechkin records his 8th career 50-goal season, 1 shy of tying the all-time mark pic.twitter.com/J8uuySpVeX

— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) March 31, 2019

Ovechkin also had an impressive game for multicategory leagues, recording a plus-3 with eight shots on goal and four hits. Over his career, Ovie has arguably been the top player in leagues that count categories beyond goals and assists.

Ovechkin can provide much of the credit for his career success to Nicklas Backstrom, who along with T.J. Oshie also scored two goals and added an assist. Oshie has been particularly hot recently with ten points over his last nine games.

If you missed out on Quinn Hughes, another defenseman picked in the first round made his NHL debut on Saturday. In his first NHL game, Dante Fabbro skated 16 minutes and took three shots on goal, although he was held without a point. Fabbro was paired with veteran Dan Hamhuis on what would be the Preds’ third pairing. The former BCHL and NCAA standout won't be given the same clear path to an awaiting opportunity as Hughes has, given the presence of the big 4 on Nashville’s blueline. Keeper owners will need to exercise patience. You can check out Fabbro’s Dobber Prospects profile here.

Viktor Arvidsson ties the Predators' single-season goal record with his 33rd.

— Adam Vingan (@AdamVingan) March 31, 2019

I had to look this up, but apparently it’s true. The Preds have never had anyone score more than 33 goals in a season, which could be the result of the 20-year-old franchise playing many seasons under defensive-minded Barry Trotz during the dead puck era. To boot, Viktor Arvidsson has scored these 33 goals in just 55 games, so he could have obliterated this record had he played a full season.

Cam Atkinson scored his 40th and 41st goals of the season, which also ties a franchise record. At least the Jackets don’t stand to lose Atkinson in the offseason, as he is signed all the way into the 2024-25 season.

Artemi Panarin might not be scoring many goals lately (just two this month), but he’s still been piling up the assists. Panarin picked up four assists on Saturday, giving him seven points and a plus-8 ranking over his past four games.

With a goal on Saturday, David Savard now has goals in back-to-back games and four goals over his past eight games. This after scoring four in his first 70 games. I made him a low-key end-of-week waiver-wire add last week, so maybe you were lucky enough to add him and stick with him all week.

Dustin Byfuglien finally returned to the Jets’ lineup on Saturday, logging 24 minutes of icetime. Big Buff had missed the past month and a half with an ankle injury. He has been held to just 38 games this season, so it appears that playing a physical style for a decade has finally caught up to him. He could be in for a bounceback next season if he can stay healthy most of the time, but I’d be weary of drafting him as high as he has been in recent seasons. He averaged as the 40th pick in Yahoo drafts last fall, but I’d suggest waiting at least another round or two for the multicategory beast next season.

John Tortorella may not have had much faith in Anthony Duclair. However, with two goals on Saturday, Duclair is now up to 18 goals on the season. New Senators’ coach Marc Crawford has his team playing well lately, as they have now won three of their past four games. Duclair has benefitted from Crawford’s system (or maybe simply from being out of Torts’ doghouse), as he has scored seven goals and 13 points in 17 games as a Senator. The majority of that production is recent, with nine points over his last eight games. Hey, the Sens play four games next week. It couldn’t hurt that much to take a one-week flier to finish the season.

It’s been a down year for Rickard Rakell, but he might still make it to 20 goals. Rakell scored three second-period goals in the Ducks’ 5-1 win over Edmonton. It’s not the 34 goals like last season or the 33 he scored the season before, but Rakell has piled up seven goals over his last five games. He was a buy-low candidate through his goalless droughts of 14, 9, 8, and 6 games, up to the point in which he had just nine goals on the season earlier this month. To justify that buy-low, his shooting percentage was at a highly unlucky 6.3%, but it is now up to a more respectable 9.6% and could still climb further.

In terms of what you can do going forward, look to Rakell as a rebound candidate as he will probably slip in next season’s drafts based on his overall numbers. He was drafted at around the 70th pick in this season’s Yahoo drafts, but next season he could provide great value if he is drafted outside of the top 100.

Feels like every Sharks game has had an Evander Kane goal and two or three Evander Kane minors. What a season.

— Travis Yost (@travisyost) March 31, 2019

(Looks at Evander Kane boxscore): a goal, five shots, and nine hits. No penalty minutes though. Kane has found a home in San Jose, currently just one goal shy of his first 30-goal season. Kane is not an elite scorer, but he is a player that you can move up your rankings if you league counts any of shots on goal, hits, and penalty minutes. Kane is a top-15 option in shots (259), a top-50 option in hits (163), and he leads the league with 151 penalty minutes.

Just as the Bruins and Leafs are set to face each other in the first round, the Sharks and Golden Knights are also on a collision course for a first-round matchup. I think Vegas has built the type of team that could return to the Stanley Cup Final, but they might also not get past the first round if they have to play San Jose.

This stat about Jacob Markstrom means absolutely nothing in fantasy leagues, but interesting anyway. I noticed that four of these five goalies play for non-playoff teams. So maybe there’s a correlation between not being able to score in the shootout (which forces your goalie to do more work) and losing games? Or having to play in more shootouts because your team can’t score? All of these goalie’s teams are in the bottom third of the league in terms of goals for per game.

maybe the craziest stat from Saturday night, #Canucks Markstrom has now faced twice as many shootout attempts this year as next closest #NHL goalie pic.twitter.com/C1O21ydhBG

— Jeff Paterson (@patersonjeff) March 31, 2019

For more fantasy hockey information, or to reach out to me directly, you can follow me on Twitter @Ian_Gooding.

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Bad conditions in New York City are exposing thousands of children to lead poisoning

While poisoning has nearly been eliminated in many neighborhoods, at least 10 percent of small children, from 2005 to 2015, in 69 New York City census tracts had elevated lead levels.

A city spokeswoman said the comparison between New York and Flint, Michigan, is "alarmist and inaccurate," but New York City children in the 69 observed census tracts have twice the rate of lead poisoning.

Coney Island, Queens, and Brooklyn are particularly affected.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In public health circles, New York City is known for its long war on lead poisoning.

The city outlawed residential lead paint in 1960, 18 years before a national ban. A 2004 housing law targeted “elimination” of childhood lead poisoning within six years. The city offers free lead testing in housing, vows to fix hazards and bill landlords when necessary, and has seen childhood exposure rates decline year after year.

Yet inspectors didn’t visit the Brooklyn apartment where Barbara Ellis lived until after her twin daughters tested high for lead three years in a row, she said. They found peeling lead paint on doors and windows. The girls required speech and occupational therapy for their developmental delays, common among lead-exposed children.

“Their words and speech are still a little slurred,” Ellis, a subway conductor, said of daughters Kaitlyn and Chasity, now 6. Tired of feuding with their landlord, they found new lodging in Harlem.

The family’s plight is not uncommon.

Areas of high lead exposure risk remain throughout America’s largest and richest city, a Reuters exploration of blood testing data found. In the first examination of its kind, reporters obtained New York childhood blood testing data down to the census tract level – neighborhood areas with some 4,000 residents apiece. In densely populated New York, a tract often covers several square blocks.

While poisoning has nearly been eliminated in many neighborhoods, Reuters identified 69 New York City census tracts where at least 10 percent of small children screened over an 11-year period, from 2005 to 2015, had elevated lead levels.

That is twice the rate found across Flint, Michigan, during the peak of its notorious water contamination crisis in 2014 and 2015, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 5 percent of children’s tests were high.

The risk areas spanned New York neighborhoods and demographic groups. Peeling old paint is a conspicuous hazard, but reporters tracked other perils hiding in plain sight, from leaded soil and water, to dangerous toys, cosmetics and health supplements.

In 2015, 5,400 city children tested with an elevated blood lead level, 5 micrograms per deciliter or higher, New York’s most recent annual report on lead poisoning showed. More than 800 had levels at least twice that high.

Previously undisclosed data explored by Reuters offers a hyper-local look at neighborhood areas where the city has fallen short of its eradication goal.

“New York’s prevention program is renowned, so the fact it still has pockets like these shows how challenging this issue is on a national scale,” said Patrick MacRoy, a former director of Chicago’s lead poisoning prevention program.

Reuters found:

• A 2004 housing law co-sponsored by Bill de Blasio, now the mayor, targeted scofflaw landlords. But the city isn’t policing two key provisions that require landlords to find and fix hazards, sometimes waiting until children get poisoned before taking action.

• The areas where the most children tested high are in Brooklyn, including neighborhoods with historic brownstones and surging real estate values, where construction and renovation can unleash the toxin. The worst spot – with recent rates nearly triple Flint’s – was in a Hasidic Jewish area with the city’s highest concentration of small children.

• An affluent area near Riverside Park in Manhattan’s Upper West Side has had rates comparable to Flint’s.

• Reporters were able to buy dangerous leaded products in city shops, including children’s jewelry. One item, a cosmetic marketed for use around children’s eyes, tested with levels 4,700 times the U.S. safety standard. It was labeled lead-free.

• Reuters purchased other items subject to New York lead warnings through online giants Amazon and EBay, which later pulled the items from their websites.

• Soil testing in Brooklyn backyards and a park detected lead levels comparable to some sites designated under the federal Superfund toxic-cleanup program.

While exposure rates have dropped citywide – by up to 86 percent since 2005 – the number of children meeting New York’s criteria for lead poisoning, twice the CDC’s elevated threshold, barely budged between 2012 and 2015.

“Unfortunately, nationally and locally, we are beginning to see signs there is a leveling off in what was once a steep downward trend,” said Rebecca Morley, a housing expert who co-authored a recent report calling for more aggressive national lead abatement policies.

In a statement, City Hall spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie said comparisons between New York and Flint are “alarmist and inaccurate,” given the city’s sharp declines in lead poisoning and aggressive prevention efforts.

But Morley, while crediting the city’s progress, said the data show “extreme pockets of poisoning remain.”

New York is just one of hundreds of American communities struggling with poisoning. In a two-year investigation, Reuters has now documented 3,810 census tracts or zip code areas across 34 U.S. states where recent high childhood lead test rates have been double those found in Flint.

There’s no safe level of lead in a child’s blood. Exposure is linked to brain damage, lower IQ, behavioral disorders, and lifelong health impacts.

A question of enforcement

Capture Light/Shutterstock.comSeventy percent of New York’s housing stock was built in the 1950s or earlier, when lead was still common in paint. A toddler can be poisoned by swallowing a dime-sized flake of lead paint, or by ingesting paint dust.

“Housing is a main way that young kids get poisoned,” said Deborah Nagin, director of the city’s lead poisoning prevention program. “It’s very important that lead paint hazards, when we identify them, don’t sit around.”

Nagin’s health department division works closely with New York’s Housing and Preservation Department, HPD, whose 400 inspectors are trained to detect lead perils.

A 2004 housing code, Local Law 1, championed by then City Council member de Blasio, gave HPD broad authority to cite landlords for paint hazards and get them fixed quickly. Since then HPD has issued more than 230,000 lead paint violations to landlords.

But its inspectors aren’t able to visit all older housing in a city with more than 2 million tenant-occupied units. And the law’s explicit goal – elimination of poisoning – remains elusive seven years past its 2010 target date.

Among the reasons: There is little or no city enforcement of two provisions of the law, designed to make private landlords responsible for preventing poisoning.

One requires landlords to conduct annual lead paint inspections in pre-1960 housing units where small children live, fix hazards and keep records. The other requires them to “permanently seal or remove” lead paint from spots like windows and door-frames – so-called friction surfaces, where paint often breaks down – before new tenants move in.

Reporters reviewed the past 12 years of HPD violation records and found the agency hasn’t cited a single landlord for failure to conduct the annual inspections. Only one was cited for failure to remediate friction surfaces between tenants, in 2010.

“If the city’s not going to nail a few people for failing to do this, then no one is going to pay attention to these requirements,” said Matthew Chachere, a lawyer with anti-poverty group Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, who helped draft the 2004 law.

Mayor de Blasio declined comment.

Rafael Cestero, a former HPD commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said the measures would be hard to enforce. “There has to be some realism in what we expect a government agency to actually do,” Cestero said. The department focuses on paint violations its own inspectors find, he said, often in response to tenant complaints.

Coney Island kids

Joshua Lott/ReutersIn a statement, City Hall called its complaint-based enforcement system “highly effective” at reducing poisoning.

Yet it doesn’t always work, leaving some families to fend for themselves until a child gets poisoned, Reuters found.

In a 116-year-old building in Coney Island, Brooklyn, unit 2R’s grimy walls are marked with “LEAD PAINT” stamps next to two children’s beds, where inspectors recently found the toxin.

HPD records show the cramped apartment has 163 outstanding housing code violations.

During a reporter’s recent visit, the power was out and the building’s common areas were scattered with rodent droppings. In an apartment, a gas kitchen oven was jerry-rigged to provide heat.

Back in 2015, when Natalia Rollins moved here from a homeless shelter, the mother of two felt lucky. A city-sponsored voucher program, CITYFEPS, helped place her in a $1,515-a-month apartment and covered much of the rent.

Rollins, 25, soon grew scared for her baby boys. There was peeling old paint, a ceiling cave-in, roach, rodent and bee infestations, buckling floorboards, a broken window.

“I hated living in shelters, but nobody should have to live like this either,” said Rollins, a daycare worker. “The landlord would just ignore my calls. When you’re on a voucher you’re treated differently.”

Rollins says she reported housing concerns through the city’s 311 hotline dozens of times. Inspectors visited, but didn’t initially test for lead.

Two months ago her son Noah, 2, was diagnosed with lead poisoning. After receiving his test result, the city Health Department quickly swooped in and found the apartment rife with paint hazards.

Noah’s language is developing, but Natalia worries about his acute sensitivity to noises and his pica behavior, a tendency to eat non-food items. Natalia, Noah and older brother Randy, who is autistic, are now staying in a Bronx safe house for lead poisoning victims operated by Montefiore Hospital.

Ervin Johnson, Rollins’ Coney Island landlord, said the apartment was in “excellent condition” when she moved in. “If her kid got exposed to lead, it probably came from somewhere else,” he said.

But the city says most poisoned children are exposed at home, and records show Johnson’s building has been on the citywide list of the 200 “most distressed” multi-unit dwellings since 2007. “This landlord has repeatedly failed their duty to safeguard our youngest New Yorkers,” the city said.

Lapeyrolerie said the city is now pressing Johnson to “immediately” address the building’s violations and working to find Rollins another apartment.

Lapses in public housing have also come to light. For years, the city’s public housing authority, NYCHA, failed to conduct required annual lead inspections in older public housing, an ongoing federal investigation found.

“We can and must do better,” NYCHA spokeswoman Ilana Maier said.

Citywide, the rate of screened children showing a high blood test in 2015 was 1.7 percent, below the CDC’s estimated national average of 2.5 percent.

Yet rates can vary wildly. A tract on the well-to-do Upper West Side of Manhattan – adjacent to Riverside Park between 105th and 109th Streets – had rates similar to Flint’s even in recent years. The area features grand old buildings and multi-million dollar apartments, where renovations could put children at risk if lead safety practices aren’t followed.

Williamsburg woes

Flickr/matthileoDecades ago, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a low-rent and largely industrial area. Today, its spacious lofts and privileged perch across from downtown Manhattan attract the well-heeled.

Working-class residents remain, too, including thousands of Hasidic Jews from the Satmar sect, who have settled in the neighborhood’s southern zone since World War II. With their distinctive dress and traditions, the Hasidim’s orthodox lifestyle strikes a contrast to the hipster glitz encroaching nearby.

Hasidic Williamsburg suffers alarming rates of childhood lead poisoning, ranking as the riskiest spot Reuters found citywide.

Across three southern Williamsburg census tracts, as many as 2,400 children tested at or above the CDC’s current elevated lead threshold between 2005 and 2015. In one, 21 percent of children tested during this period had high lead levels. Rates in the most recent years were lower, but still above Flint’s.

On Lee Avenue, boys wearing black hats and coats stream out of yeshivas, while women shop in kosher markets and kibitz in Yiddish in front of old brownstones, many built around 1900.

“When I saw the numbers I freaked out,” said Rabbi David Niederman, head of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg. “The concentration of old housing and the number of children in them are big factors.”

In Hasidic Williamsburg, around 25 percent of the population is age five or younger, compared to about 6 percent citywide.

In recent years, city health workers homed in on the poisoning cluster. UJO and other groups helped health officials conduct outreach, distributing lead awareness pamphlets in Yiddish, urging clinics to boost screening, and holding meetings for residents and landlords.

As recently as 2015, one area tract had a rate of 13 percent, the highest in the city. It’s too early to tell whether rates have since dropped.

Dangers on store shelves

Brett Carlsen/GettyNewly mobile toddlers are the most common lead victims, but school-aged kids and adults are also vulnerable.

Recent testing at the city’s public schools showed more than 80 percent had at least one water outlet with lead levels above the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard of 15 parts per billion. New York public radio station WNYC mapped those results. Faucets that test high are shut off pending repairs, but leaded water lines remain common in New York buildings.

Consumer products are another concern. This year, lead safety advocate Tamara Rubin documented several varieties of the wildly popular fidget spinner toy that contained lead.

And in New York’s popular bodegas, other dangerously leaded products can be found on shelves.

Reporters bought several products that can be used by children or pregnant women from area shops, ordered others from online vendors, and sent 13 items for testing at an accredited laboratory. Six had lead levels exceeding consumer product safety standards.

In Jackson Heights, Queens, a vibrant cauldron of the city’s diverse immigrant populations, scores of small shops sell toy jewelry.

Two items Reuters had tested, a butterfly hairpiece and a glittery earring and beret set, each had lead content above the 100 parts per million U.S. safety standard for toys. Both were Chinese imports. One was labeled “lead-safe.”

The city health department sometimes conducts sweeps, seizing dangerous products or ordering shops to destroy them. It recently found Mexican lead-glazed pottery and issued a public advisory.

But some shopkeepers aren’t aware of the warnings, or ignore them.

In the southern section of Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park area, more than 500 children tested high for lead from 2005 through 2015. Many families in the area emigrated from Pakistan and Bangladesh.

In New York, children of South Asian descent are found to have especially high blood lead levels more often than other children. Sometimes, the poisoning can be linked to imported products.

A string of bright blue, red and gold tubes containing eyeliner – known as ‘surma,’ ‘kajal’ or ‘kohl’ – can be found in many Ditmas Park shops. The cosmetic is sometimes applied to children and touted to improve eye health.

Two varieties reporters bought, both marked lead-free, had unsafe lead levels.

The label for Hashmi Surmi Special liquid, made in Pakistan, says it contains “0.00 percent” lead. Lab testing showed 4.7 percent lead, or 4,700 times the Food and Drug Administration safety standard for cosmetics.

The Hashmi brand website says its surma eyeliner should be used by little ones “right from their childhood to prevent stress on sight.”

Manufacturer A.Q. & Co acknowledged the product contains a lead compound, but said it’s safe when “used externally.”

Health departments disagree. Across the United States, several have linked use of surma to childhood poisoning cases.

New York City has warned against using or selling these products, and FDA guidance says they are illegal to import.

When reporters returned to the Bisillah Grocery Store where they bought the Hashmi eyeliner, a shopkeeper said he’d stopped sales months ago, after a customer had an “allergic reaction.” Reminded of a far more recent sale to a reporter, he said, “You must have bought one of the last bottles.”

The Hashmi eyeliner was still available in several other shops nearby.

Other products U.S. health departments have warned about were easy to find online for delivery to New York City doorsteps.

Reuters purchased leaded Indian Ayurvedic medicines from vendors on Ebay and Amazon.

One of them, Ovarin, is touted to improve women’s reproductive health. It was shipped from a vendor in India via Amazon.com Marketplace. “A Boon to the Womanhood,” its online marketing said. Lab testing showed it contains enough lead to potentially harm mother and unborn child when taken at the suggested dosage.

Its maker, Ban Lab, didn’t respond to interview requests.

Amazon.com removed the product from its website after hearing from Reuters that it was subject to health warnings.

Another product, Zandu brand Maha Yograj Guggul, indicated for joint pain and other ailments, was purchased from a vendor in New Jersey via Ebay.com and tested high for lead.

Manufacturer Emami Group acknowledged the product contains lead, as required by Indian regulations for certain Ayurvedic formulas. The product should only be taken under a doctor’s supervision, its packaging says.

Ebay said it would prohibit sale of the item. Amazon and Ebay said they continually monitor products for safety concerns.

Overhead, underfoot

Brett Carlsen/GettyIn Queens, the city subway’s Number 7 train rumbles overhead on an elevated track.

Last year, a painters trade union said it discovered that lead paint has been raining down on bustling Queens neighborhoods from the subway’s century-old structures. A Brooklyn federal judge set a hearing for this December to consider whether to declare a public health emergency.

Poisoning risks also lurk underfoot in some city areas, where past industrial or vehicle emissions, trash incineration, and runoff from buildings with old paint have tainted the soil.

On a late summer evening, reporters conducted soil testing with help from researchers along a path in McCarren Park, a popular family destination in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Columbia University Environmental Sciences graduate student Franziska Landes has been testing soil around the former industrial neighborhood for months. Among the scores of backyards Landes has tested, most have had at least one reading above the EPA’s 400 parts per million lead safety threshold for areas where children play.

Aiming a futuristic-looking XRF analyzer gun into the soil, Landes quickly found one spot, along a jogging path, whose reading was five times that level.

“Wow, that’s a high one,” Landes said. Several other readings on the same path were lower, but still above the EPA threshold.

Nagin, director of New York’s lead-poisoning program, said her department hasn’t usually prioritized soil risks in an urban environment where children’s access to yards is limited. She recently met with Columbia researchers and is taking a deeper look.

Soil researcher Joshua Cheng, a professor at Brooklyn College, said more vigilance is needed. Residents in affected areas should avoid tracking dirt into homes, wash children’s hands often, and place clean topsoil in spots testing high, he said.

“The lead levels found in Brooklyn backyards are often similar to areas where there has been past lead smelting activity,” Cheng said. “They’re comparable to Superfund sites.”

Sarah DuFord, a mother of two, was among the Greenpoint residents who invited reporters into her backyard to test.

One reading was below the EPA threshold, but others were around four times that level.

“This confirms my fears,” she said. Her next step: screening her 2-year-old for lead.

Then and Now - Childhood lead poisoning in New York: http://tmsnrt.rs/2mojaEm

(Additional reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar. Editing by Ronnie Greene)

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