#polo writing

[merakiui]

there are no words to express how crazy i am going right now (part two).

[cherrywhite]

Okay some of these I had written down before chapter 43 but I finally found the time to sit down and make a bingo sheet for the last few episodes. Ranging from Legitimate Predictions to Things I Want to Happen to You Know What? Sure 🤠

Template if anyone wants to make one of their own:

[hedgehog-moss]

I lost one of my chickens :( she was caught and carried away by a fox... I’ve been growing complacent about my chickens’ safety I think because we’ve only had one other attack before, a goshawk that swooped in abruptly (unsuccessfully), but no fox sightings nearby so I’ve been assuming Pandolf was a great deterrent. Which he is, just not foolproof. I’ve talked to some people in town about this and they were pretty philosophical about foxes stealing chickens, like “it’s the tribute we pay to woodland animals, it’s just a few hens here and there.” I don’t begrudge the fox for being a fox, if anything I have a renewed respect for foxes because everyone I talked to proceeded to give me their best / worst fox stories, and most of them involved foxes outsmarting humans (learning people’s habits / timetables, opening latches, faking a limp...) Still I feel terrible for my hen, she was only three. RIP Cordy :( You’ll be remembered fondly... (except by the cats.) I feel bad for the other hen too, who just lost her pal!

When I said that last thing, one of my neighbours jumped on the opportunity to try and convince me again to accept a rooster from him. He had a rooster baby boom last summer and I’ve been telling him for months that I don’t need a rooster, I don’t want to raise chickens I just want eggs, and his new argument was that a rooster would protect my hen (or if it comes to that, would heroically sacrifice himself rather than let the hen be eaten—I’m sceptical...) I asked around for a young hen but there aren’t any to be had in this season, so my remaining one is going to be alone until the spring, and my neighbour said she’d get stressed and male company is better than no company. (I wish I could ask my hen what she wants! Maybe she’s penning A Coop Of One’s Own as we speak.) I said the rooster was more likely to stress her out and harass her and he said nah they’re free ranging all day, it’ll be fine, and he’s young so your adult hen will boss him around. I was like, but then will he be any good at protecting her? etc. etc. and after a while I caved in.

When I told her about this on the phone my mum sighed “you’re terrible at saying no”—excuse me, I said no so many times and the guy just kept ploughing on until he could foist a rooster upon me. I’m good at saying no, other people are terrible at hearing it! I reassured her that I had only agreed to take the rooster for a short probationary period, and if he bothers my hen too much I’ll drive him back to his native farm. My mum was like “Drive him back? look I’m sorry I raised you as a city kid but there’s no need to waste gas on driving a rooster around, I’ll have no qualms about wringing his neck for dinner if he’s more trouble than he’s worth.” The rooster’s fate is not sealed though, if he is anywhere from vaguely useful to not actively problematic I’ll keep him, so we’ll see...!

[yrsonpurpose]

ELLIE BAMBER as PRINCESS BEATRICE Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

[strid3rofthen0rth]

I've been going at max RPMs for about a week and a half. Redlining, 14-16 hours a day, between work and wood shop. It just happens like that sometimes. Work is going full bore, wood shop orders piling up. Put your head down and fucking dig.

And honestly, I've been feeling a bit raggedy. Worn down, which starts to make my liar brain tell me all the bad things, mostly from lack of sleep and stress. What I believe mental health professionals call "the big sads."

But relief is on the horizon. I'm headed to the bestie's tomorrow. With said cornhole sets in the truck to deliver to clients. Then we'll go to a high school football game to watch his son, a top prospect in the state, demolish the opposition. With his whole fam damnily, of which I am an honored member.

Saturday, we drive into Madison before the sun to get a good tailgating spot with all the boys for Alabama at Wisconsin.

The Badgers will lose badly, but the tailgating will be fantastic. I've been smoking and grilling meats all week to construct the greatest sandwich and taco bar ever witnessed on this plane of existence.

Couple hours to go in the shop yet tonight. Almost there.

[quotelr]

I have not told half of what I saw.

Marco Polo

[hotcinnamonsunset]

muffins??? seems pretty sus🧐

[Image ID: 2 gifs from different 911 episodes involving Maddie and muffins and a bonus gif

GIF 1: from episode 2.5 the Awful People dispatcher handing Maddie a muffin in the break room after a stressful call. GIF 2: from episode 6.13 Maddie's fake neighbor handing her a pan of muffins. BONUS GIF: from episode 5.3 Ana trying to clean up Eddie's kitchen after the blackout where the kitchen table is swamped with muffins.

/end ID]

bonus:

[thepersonalwords]

I have not told half of what I saw.

Marco Polo

[suterbuyout2024]

by the way now that my haha funney post is out of the way i do still think it's insane that in hockey circles you can say something like 'hey maybe violence is bad' and at least ten people will come out of the woodwork being like um actually violence and horrific injuries are integral parts of our sport and we couldn't possibly play it without them

[pedriscroquettes]

Would do we think a 3some with both pablo’s would be like? I recon one might be a bit more gentler then the other

starting the day off strong i see. (i got this at 9 am lmao)

nsfw under the cut.

• i can see this occurring in one of two ways. either you’re already in a relationship with gavi and he suggests it or you’re already friends with both of them and eventually a long night of drinking leads to it.

• if we assume by the way they’re on the field then gavi is definitely the more aggressive one. eventually he’s the one in charge of the whole ordeal.

• although that doesn’t necessarily mean that torre is gentle. i mean that man is frustrated that he doesn’t get playing time he has to relieve that tension somehow.

• my personal opinion is that gavi is gonna be the one hitting it from the back while you suck torre off. at first torre is gentle asking you if it’s okay to grab your hair and as he gets closer to release he’s full on fucking your throat.

• all three of you end up sweaty and fucked out of your minds. now my personal opinion is that gavi is confident with his sexuality so he doesn’t even bother asking torre to leave right after so you all fall asleep right after (realistically speaking they just had their first threesome the last thing on their mind is self care)

• i definitely believe this becomes a reoccurring event.

[writing-to-survive]

#168

You have been burdened with the Marco Polo curse. It takes away your eyesight, leaving you with just your voice. In order to see again, you must call out for your soulmate and find them before time runs out. If time runs out, the water in your body will fill your lungs, drowning you.

[edwardallenpoe]

fanfiction rlly have you out here looking up the ages and timelines of side character's children's ages just for two lines of dialogue😭😭

Like. I haven't watched Lord Of The Rings yet so I'm not sure but I don't even think Polo Baggins or his children had mored than five seconds total screentime. Like. The wiki for Polo didn't even have his date of death. We just don't know. I was so prepared to just make somebody up but bam. Now I have a small hyperfixation on Polo Baggins, first cousin removed of Bilbo Baggins.

[livefromtheyard]

ludwig.gg

[haven-of-dusk]

Just going to put this WIP idea on here so I don't forget it (away from my computer/WIP folder): Feeling as though he needs to contribute more to the family income and realizing occasional shifts at Slices aren't enough, Ricky signs up to be the student manager for the water polo team, which admittedly more often than not makes him the water boy/laundry slave rather than anything of technical importance. But to his surprise, and mild annoyance, the captain of the team makes a point of being nicer to him than everyone else is, even treating him like *gasp* a real person! But Ricky's just here for the pay. It doesn't matter how nice the captain is to him, or how much everyone else mistreats him, or how good the team members look when they emerge from the water, dripping wet...I mean, Ricky is straight...isn't he?

[veil-of-exordia]

'Hamlet was friends with Ophelia' this. 'Hamlet was friends with Laertes' that. Consider:

Hamlet was friends with Polonius.

Hear me out:

1: Both theatre kids. Enough said.

2: Apart from Horatio, Polonius is the character most capable of sustaining conversations with Hamlet. He takes Hamlet's insults in stride. He has not just one, but multiple extended conversations with Hamlet. Hamlet displays aggravation towards Gertrude and Claudius, while Polonius displays aggravation towards Laertes and Ophelia...but the two seem strangely calm, almost exasperated, around each other. Granted, the origins of Polonius's attitude is probably because he is socially inferior to Hamlet and because he wants to appeal to Hamlet to reveal 'secrets'...but Hamlet definitely appreciates a conversation partner that can endure him, if not keep up with him, and why wouldn't Polonius return that sentiment?

3: They also both speak numerous asides. It shows that they have a shared tendency to comment on people behind their backs (which is corroborated by other aspects of the play, of course), and this indicates that there is a nonzero chance that they have gossiped together.

4: Ophelia approached Polonius about Hamlet's madness. Consider:

-Ophelia seems to be distressed and concerned about Hamlet when she approaches Polonius.

-Ophelia knows that Polonius is overprotective, yet still approached Polonius about Hamlet, expressing her concern (as in Hamlet looking 'piteous', 'as if he had been loosed out of Hell') specifically.

The implication here is that Ophelia appears to believe that Polonius won't try to actively harm Hamlet, but might rather help him, or at least prevent Hamlet from getting worse. And why would Polonius want to help Hamlet? You know the drill.

5: We get a lot of ambiguity about Hamlet's madness throughout the play. However, we mostly agree that sending R&G, unwitting coconspirators in a murder plot, to die in his place, was a move no sane person would do. We can also agree that at least some of Hamlet's 'madness' early on was feigned.

Consider that the death of Polonius was what drove Hamlet truly mad. It matches up with the timeline that Hamlet started being truly mad just before the R&G death-sentence while being at least somewhat sane earlier.

And why would killing Polonius drive Hamlet over the edge? Apart from the general shock of murder, finding out you accidentally killed a long-time friend would definitely be enough to drive anyone over the edge.

6. They both like surveillance. One more shared hobby.

7. As I've outlined in my Polonius and Gertrude are foils post, Polonius appears to be too concerned as a parent while Gertrude appears to be too unconcerned, and Hamlet is greatly dissatisfied with Gertrude's attitude. By extension, then, Hamlet would probably respect Polonius's "engagement" better compared to Gertrude's "detachment", and this might draw them together.

8. Speaking about Gertrude! Hamlet and Polonius are the only two characters in the play who have expressed explicit, strong dissent in-person against Gertrude specifically. Combining with point 3, ranting about Gertrude could have been an excellent bonding activity for them.

Of course, I like this headcanon because it makes the story more tragic. But I have an additional reason:

-Were Hamlet once friends with Polonius, Hamlet's killing of Polonius would be a betrayal of that friendship. This adds an additional layer of meaning when Laertes talks about 'honour' in the final scene.

And finally, all this also indicates that Hamlet and Polonius are foils (differences despite similarity). I am too tired to analyse this further but. Yeah I think we get the gist.

[bellshazes]

one day i'll actually watch the hc/empires crossover stuff i need to and write the actual point of ruinsfic i never got to abt bdubs qua sun god and bdubs&gem on being in stories or playing at being in stories or bringing stories into being and improvising stories and, most of all above all fucking else, writing a story so well that it renders you its author/character obsolete and you vanish from it leaving only mythology where once there was a person, maybe, perhaps. all that shit about stones and ruins and memory was supposed to go somewhere. but you could also just go read invisible cities or whatever so i guess it's fine