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boobtubedude · 4 years

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Reposting my original “Lost” series finale review

(Originally posted May 23, 2010, on Zap2It. RIP, Zap2It.)

So here’s the deal: this will not be a complete recap of the series finale of “Lost.” To try to make complete and coherent sense of what just dropped our way would be 1) impossible, and 2) be a disgrace to what just happened. Because what just happened isn’t something you instantly react to, but rather mull over during the course of a few days, weeks, months, or years. After all, that was the final episode. We have all the time in the world to think about its implications until we “move on.”

And yes, I use the phrase “move on” specifically due to the use of the phrase by Christian Shephard in the sideways universe, which we know now to be real only in the emotional sense of the world. All throughout the season, the producers of the show have assured us that what happens over there had stakes and meanings, and this is still completely true in the most basic of senses. Neither the pro-epilogue camp nor the pro-Island timeline had it exactly right, even though both camps had valid perspectives to bring to the table and pieces of the puzzle in hand. What “Lost” brought instead was a third perspective, one that nobody really saw and one that I bet made a core section of its audience completely and utterly insane with anger.

Looking at the finale from a perspective of mythology isn’t the best way to go about it. (I started to jot down “So who put the stone in the devil cave in the first place?” before slapping myself silly.) Looking at the finale from a perspective of plot probably isn’t the best ay, either. (Waaaaay too much time spent on getting Ajira 316 up and running again, especially considering the sideways resolution. And there are enough holes in the overall plot as a whole to dig a few dozen wells down towards the light inside all of us.) But looking at it from an emotional perspective, I thought the finale was a masterpiece.

In a sense, “The End” was a love letter from the show to itself and, hopefully, to the audience as well. But it didn’t pay off donkey wheels and Dharma Initiatives but the core characters of the show themselves. The sideways universe did offer a second chance, but not in the way that those that saw the sideways world as a chance to live their lives free from the Island. Instead, it offered each character a tremendous grace note, one felt both by the characters but also the audience at home. When these people “flashed” to their Island lives, they didn’t flash to epic moments in Island history: they flashed to empty jars of peanut butter and freshly picked flowers and all the small moments that make up a relationship.

If the show had to get one of three aforementioned elements right (character, mythology, plot), then it absolutely focused on the right one. As of this moment, writing in the immediate aftermath of what I just saw, I could care less about what happened to Kate and Company once they left the Island. The point of the show seems to be that what you do is less important than the meaning behind what you do. And moreover, if you live those lives in the correct manner, then the specifics are null and void. In the end, you arrive at the same destination. (In Richard’s case, you arrive there with newly graying hair, and the chance to actually buy the eyeliner you’ve long been accused of using.)

Now, let’s talk about that sideways destination itself. If put on the spot, here’s what I think we’re supposed to take away from it: As Island Protector, Hurley envisioned a way to give a gift back to those with whom he shared his time on the Island. Mother had her style, Jacob had his style, and Jack had his extremely interim style. But placing Hurley in ultimate charge of the Island? Brilliant, and not just because I predicted this last Fall and am happy I got at least SOMETHING right.

He’s the absolute perfect person to take the Island from what it was (something to be protected) into what it should be (something to be shared). In a show full of selfish people, Hurley is the epitome of unselfishness. Go back to the pilot episode: he’s distributing food on the first night (including a double dose for Claire, eating for two at the time). In “Everybody Hates Hugo,” he once again institutes a massive redistribution of foodstuffs. In both the Island timeline and sideways one, he uses wealth as a means to help others, giving away his cash rather than hang onto it. So having him established as the final Protector of the Island that we see (though, I imagine, not the final one by any means) worked for me.

What I imagine did not work for a LOT of you is the fact that we’ve spent one-half of the final season of the show watching events that would have been solved in “LA X” had Haley Joel Osment been on the flight. It’s a feeling that I have sensed coming for a while: the sideways world was doing such a damn good job of providing emotionally resonant moments that it eventually turned into an overwhelming attractive option for both the characters and the viewers. In fact, it turns out that the major players had absolutely no problem moving on once they made their emotional connections/breakthroughs, and instead willingly moved onto whatever lies on the other side of that white light.

As such, I look at the sideways world now as something created by Hurley (with Ben’s help) as a stopping ground for all major players in the “Lost” universe to meet at once, irrespective of when or how they died. As Christian says, there is no “now” over there. Time is just a relative construct created by people who are used to seeing events progress in a linear manner. What does Hurley ever want? For his friends to be happy! So what does he do? Well, he doesn’t build a golf course, he builds a space for them to somehow connect after shuffling off their mortal coil and all end up getting the moments of happiness that eluded them, making connections that had been previously missed, and getting forgiveness once thought impossible. They don’t have to be alive to have these things matter once achieved in the sideways universe, which is why I was behind the ultimate explanation 100%.

In the end, electromagnetism had nothing to do with the sideways world. There was no Faustian bargain between Eloise Hawking and The Man in Black. I’ve spent the second half of the season (ever since “Happily Ever After”) arguing that theory, and I’m delighted to be wrong. Why? It’s easier to buy “Hurley’s gift” as a reason as opposed to trying to throw Schroedinger’s cat as a reason for the sideways world. And that “gift” yielded scene after scene in the sideways world that reminded us all why we care so much about this show: its characters. I’m sure everyone had their particular favorites: for now, I’m putting Sawyer/Juliet in the pole position with Charlie/Claire as a surprising second. I’ll take scenes like this over lengthy exposition of the true nature of the glowing cave any day.

It’s obviously easy to say, “Well, the characters are happy, so we should be happy.” But clearly it’s not that simple. After all, these characters are fictional, constructs of the writing staff, whom I am sure went into hiding knowing that there would not only be questions but flaming torches/pitchforks aimed their way once this episode dropped. If we didn’t care about these characters, then there wouldn’t be such anger. Either you read interviews and now feel deceived, or you’re generally displeased that our characters are all dead. I’m not going to tut-tut you from that perspective, since it’s your perspective and you’re totally welcome to it.

To me, anything in the sideways world ended up being something of a bonus, both a meta-level and a narrative level. The show didn’t do the one thing I prayed it wouldn’t: negate the sacrifices and deaths on the Island timeline for some sort of reboot/do over in the sideways timeline. So, we got to see really interesting combinations and remixes of existing characters in unusual settings, with those settings driven by a combination of subconscious psychological desires and latent psychological holdups. (Kate sees herself as the innocent victim, rather than an actual killer, but is still on the run. Sawyer fashions himself a do-gooder, but is still unable to shake the memory of his parents. Jack invents a domestic life he never had, inserting a new body in his life in the form of a son to replace the father he could never find.)

On a character level, the sideways world allowed these characters the chance to let go in ways that they were unable to do in their actual lives. To fault the show for creating such a space when we have so often lamented the unfairness or abruptness of their deaths seems a bit hypocritical to me. For example, let’s take Sun/Jin. Many howled when they died, unable to believe two seasons apart boiled down to one episode; many others noted that it didn’t move them, due to the couple being alive in the sideways world. Turns out, the sideways world gave them another chance to “be together,” as the latter group suspected, but also honoring the sacrifice that tore up the former. I’d love to call this win/win, but I’m not sure I’d get many takers on this.

Let’s take another example: John Locke. Here’s a man that died a potentially pitiful death in “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” only to have his life honored and vindicated in the finale. Without inspiring Jack, the good doctor doesn’t return to the Island, and never becomes Protector, and never stops The Man in Black, and never passes off the torch to Hurley who in turn creates a special world in which Locke not only gets to have the relationship with Jack they never had on the Island, but also gets to forgive his murderer. I could give a flying fig about the other people on the outrigger if I get payoffs such as this instead.

And, as many of us suspected, the show closed on a familiar image, in a familiar place. Some might find fault with the heart of the Island being so near the place where the show started, but if The Island has taught us anything, it’s that looking and seeing are two different things. Charlie couldn’t “see” his guitar until he chose to give up his drugs. The cave is no different: Jack couldn’t see it until he was ready to see it. That’s the work he had to do all along. By bookending the series around a man opening up his eyes to the unknown and closing them as a man who learned what it meant to truly live, “Lost” encapsulated its’ primary thematic concern: what it means to live and learn through other people. They lived together, and none of them died alone. Not in the end. Perfect.

I’ve tried to thematically address the biggest issues/ideas of tonight’s episode. I realize I am short on specifics, but I also realize that there’s probably a huge need on your part to talk about this episode as quickly as possible. So I’m going to end things here, but know that this is just the beginning. Over at Zap2it’s Guide to Lost, we’re going to spend all week looking back at this episode, and by extension, the series itself. Next week, we’ll be continuing our look back at this ambitious, epic, emotional, imperfect, messy, glorious, unique show. I look forward to hearing your comments below, and I look forward to continuing the discussion with you further over on the blog throughout the week.

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thetldrplace · 3 years

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Negative Inspiration

Having had to work on patent drawings for the last week, which is kind of a boring, donkey job, I usually put on podcasts and try to learn something. But I ended up watching a "discussion" between some men and three OnlyFans girls on a channel called the Roommates. (Just for context, I have mentioned I had been watching a young woman recently named Courtney Ryan. She was invited to be on the Roommates channel, and that's how I ended up running across their video.) Anyway.... Roommates is, so they say, dedicated to helping men becoming the best version of themselves etc.

I have to admit I watched this in part because I wanted to hear what the pretty girls had to say, though I was expecting it to be dumb. Sure enough, they trotted out the usual platitudes about being strong, independent women.... financially able to make their own way in the world, and they don't need no man to help them because they can do it themselves, blah, blah, blah.

The men were insisting that while these girls were making money now, it was trading on their looks and wouldn't last, blah, blah, blah. It degenerated into a mess, as maybe I should have expected.

While I hate the term "mansplaining", because it is often a way to just shut men up, these guys were genuine examples of the phenomenon. They repeatedly spoke over the girls, they were demeaning to them, and yeah, point taken, the girls ARE trading on their looks and that's not going to last forever. The girls countered with- well, we're making boatloads of money how we can while we can.

While the men's point is taken- they're making short-term money but selling out longer term options, there are only so many ways that can be said. I gotta say: I did NOT think I would be taking the girls' side on this one, and in one way I can't. These girls are essentially online strippers, and it's not a healthy way to make a living, even if it's effective. But I feel like the two sides were talking past each other: Yes, the girls are making short term money. They COULD invest the money, if they're smart, and set themselves up for a longer term. Will they? To be honest, listening to these girls, probably not. but to the girls point, they could. The men were stuck on this point of it not being "long term", and to be fair to the girls, a lot of things people end up doing for money are not "long term", or particularly effective, so it felt like the guys were just sort of picking on these girls as easy targets. I'll clarify that I don't think what these girls are doing is healthy, for them or society, but the men were only slightly less shallow.

Why was I watching this? I admitted part of it was because it involved pretty girls, but part of it was because I was expecting the discussion to be a cautionary tale. That's the nice term. Train wreck, Springer-esque, and cluster**** are also terms that might be applicable. This morning as I was getting ready to come to the office, I was thinking about this kind of negative inspiration, by which I mean watching failure for various reasons.

I think part of the reason for the popularity of reality TV is that we like seeing people do dumb stuff because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In the best moments, we'd learn from watching other's mistakes. This of course has a long history.

I was reading the prophet Joel this morning and 2:17 says "Do not make your inheritance a byword among the nations". This phrase- I will make you a byword, happens in the scriptures. It is the Lord telling the people- I will make an example of you- a cautionary tale- so that people will look and shake their heads.

The Greek tragedies were sometimes about this, though the reasons for watching tragedies were more complex than just cautionary tales.

Books like 1984 or Animal Farm or any number of others are written in the same sense- to warn us of the ways in which things can go wrong.

It is, as I mentioned, a way of learning from other's mistakes.

I have read/watched all kinds of things that do this. One of the reasons I like history is to learn the ways in which prior generations tried to cope with situations; sometimes successfully, but often failing. As the old saying goes- those that fail to study the past are doomed to repeat it. The saying presumes that not learning from mistakes means repeating them.

I'm sure there's a real term for the idea of negative inspiration- looking at the idiocy of others and being inspired to NOT do that! The Germans probably have a 25 letter word for it. But until I learn what it is, I'll just use negative inspiration.

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tmnt-rambles · 7 years

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Mikey Meets Your Child

Request/Prompt:: It's okay if not, but would you mind doing a fic (after the current one of course! I love it so far!) of Mikey's gf of a few months inviting him over for the first time and introducing him to her toddler she hadn't mentioned before?

No warnings. Just Mikey cuteness.

Glancing at the clock, you curled your lip between your teeth and began nibbling on it nervously. Today had been a day of major screw ups. You had gotten into an argument with your boss, which was totally his fault of course. You had forgotten your lunch at your flat which meant going out during rush hour traffic in the middle of Manhattan for food, in turn that put you late getting back to the office which ended up in your boss again treating you like shit.

After eight hours of that torture you just didn’t feel like doing anything but getting a nice long bath in your tub and curling up with your favite tot. However tonight you had a date with your boyfriend of three months, Mikey. You two had met through a high school friend, Casey Jones. Honestly, you were terrified when you met the turtles but once you got to know them, you didn’t see giant mutant turtles. You saw them as people, your friends. When Mikey shyly asked you out, well, asked you to join him for a moonlit pizza date, you couldn’t refuse. You had developed a little bit of a crush on the orange clad ninja.

Everything after that was history. You two instantly clicked and took off like wildfire. Normally after a hard day, you’d call Mikey or go visit him. He knew just what to do and say to get you smiling and giggling, but tonight….tonight You just weren’t up for it. You pulled out your phone and began typing away.

As You locked your phone, you tossed it to the table and instantly began to worry. He was coming, he was coming over and you had still not told him your biggest secret.

“Mama!” A small voice pulled you from your thoughts. You instantly smiled and glanced down at your three year old son, Joel. “Mama I colored you a picture!” He beamed holding up the sloppily done picture of a dog….a purple and blue dog to be precise.

You groaned and scooped up your boy, carefully taking the picture to examine it. “My little artist.” You chuckled, leaning in to nuzzle your nose against his cheek, gaining a loud giggle from him as his tiny hands tried to push you away. “Now where should we put this master piece?” You hummed in thought while glancing around your kitchen.

“The fridge, Mama! We always put stuffs there.” He pointed towards the fridge that was indeed covered in your child’s precious art work.

“Of course, how could I forget.” You chuckled walking over to refrigerator, using a small letter magnet to hang the picture next to the many, many others. You smiled and looked over the art. It was a funny turn of events that both the men in your life were both big into art. “Okay, Bud. Listen. Mama’s got a friend coming over tonight and I want you to meet him.”

Joel looked at you with a confused look and tilted his head. “He stay for supper?”

You nodded, sitting your boy carefully on the kitchen counter. “Yes, knowing him he’s gonna bring….” You paused for dramatic effect, almost busting out into laughter as you watched your son’s eyes grow to the size of plates while he waited for you to continue. “PIZZA!” You yelled in excitement.

“I LOVE PIZZA!” Joel screamed.

“I know! Mikey’s bringing pizza but I want you to know something. Mikey is different from other people. He’s funny, sweet and loves to play games of all kinds. You’re gonna love him but he doesn’t look like us.” You tried to explain. You knew this would be a shock for Mikey but you didn’t want your son to run scared of him. One that would be awful for your poor son, but you knew Mikey was very sensitive about people thinking he was a “monster”.

“What he look like?” Picking at his pants, Joel studied your face with great interest.

“Well,” You paused, rubbing the back of your neck, “he looks like a giant turtle.”

Joel gasped loudly that took you by surprise. “He’s green?! Turtles are my favorite, turtles, lions, donkeys, fishes…but I like turtles the mostest.”

With wide eyes, you glanced down at your boy with a shocked expression. This was not the reaction you had expected. A part of you wondered if he just didn’t grasp exactly what you were trying to tell him. You opened your mouth to speak but we’re cut off by a light tapping on your window. Your stomach instantly began doing flips. This was it. “He’s here. I want you to wait in here until I come get you okay?”

“I hide?” Joel asked excitedly as you places him gently on the floor.

“ Yes, you hide until I come back.” You chuckled kissing his cheek before turning and rushing into the living room. This was it. Mikey would either be pissed at you for keeping your child a secret for so long, or he’d freak out saying this was too much and he didn’t want to deal with a kid now since he was only in his early twenties, or he’d be completely thrilled and want to bond with your kid. Those were the scenarios that were running through your mind as you opened up the window to let Mikey inside.

Mikey climbed in through the window and as you expected, he had a large pizza box in his grasp and a backpack slung over his shoulders. “ Hey, babydoll.” He smiled, leaning in to peck your lips lightly. “I brought comfort food and in this bag of goodness, are many movies and candies that brighten anyone’s day.” You smiled and watched as Mikey started to make his way towards the kitchen to lay down the delicious smelling pie.

“Wait!” You screeched, reaching out to grab his bicep before he could move another inch.

Turning his attention to you, Mikey frowned, flopping the pizza box down on the coffee table. “What’s wrong, babe?” His voice was laced with concern having never heard you yell like that before. His large green hands took hold of your waist and pulled you closer to him, a natural reflex of his.

“There’s something I need to tell you.” You spoke with a shaky breath, your fingers moving to trail up his plastron. “I haven’t been one hundred and ten percent honest with you about why I can’t let you stay the night or why I can’t stay the night at your place.”

You watched as Mikey’s face hardened, his mind automatically coming to the worst case scenario, another man! “You cheating on me, Y/N?” He asked, slowly peeling himself away from you. “Can’t say I’m surprised. Just look at me.” His defense went into immediate start up mode.

“What?” You nearly gasped. “No! God no, baby.” You were quick to cut him off by cupping his face in your hands, kissing his snout lightly. “I’d never cheat on you, but there is another man who lives here with me and he’s here now.”

Mikey tensed up slightly. “Then I should go…” He muttered slowly peeling himself away from you.

“No, Mikey, this is different. I really want you to meet him. Just, don’t freakout or he’ll freakout and then I will too.”

“I dunno, Y/N.” You could hear the nervousness in Mikey’s voice as he began to fidget with his hands. You stole another kiss and begged him to trust you. It took a few more moments and kisses of persuasion before the young turtle finally gave in and sat down nervously on the couch.

You ran into the kitchen to find your son hiding under the table. “Joel,” You smiled holding out your hand. Your boy scrambled to his feet and placed his tiny hand in yours. “Remember the turtle thing?” You asked to remind him not to freak out. Joel nodded silently and with his free hand he gripped onto your pants nervously.

Slowly and cautiously, you walked Joel into the living room, glancing up at Mikey who’s jaw went slack when he saw the tiny person walk out with you, clinging to your legs. “Joel, this is Mikey, mama’s friend.” You spoke in a chipper voice as your son peeked out nervously towards the giant turtle sitting on the couch. “Mikey, this is Joel. My son.” Your eyes went between Joel and Mikey, Joel to see if he was frightened and Mikey to see if he showed any signs of anger.

“H-Hey, little dude,” Mikey started after gulping, “I, uh, I brought pizza. Do you like pizza?” Scrambling, Mikey picked back up the box and opened it up for the kid to see the steaming pepperoni and cheese pizza.

You nudged Joel to get a reaction from him, shocking you, he dropped your hand and slowly walked over to Mikey. Once he got within arms reach of the pizza, you laughed as he slowly took a slice, not once letting his eyes fall off Mikey. “Yous a turtle?” He asked softly before taking a nibble of his pizza.

Mikey smiled, clearly relieved that your kid didn’t scream and cry. “Yeah, little dude. I’m a real turtle. Got three bros too.”

Joel smiled and climbed up on the couch next to Mikey. “They turtles? I like turtles. I like pizza too!”

“You’re my kinda man, kiddo!” Mikey laughed as you walked over to sit down next to Joel, kissing the top of his head. “I love being a turtle and pizza is the best thing in the world! Ya know, if you like turtles so much I could give you one of your own. He’s big and his name is Raph–”

“Mikey!” You playfully scolded, reaching over to pop him on the arm.

Joel giggled as Mikey laughed and rubbed his arm. “Sorry, babe. Can’t blame me for trying.”

After that, your crappy day had morphed into the best night of your life. Mikey and Joel became the best of friends and watched cartoons together while coloring, all laid out on your living room floor. Mikey had stolen a kiss while Joel ran to his room to fetch more coloring books. “You must like me a lot to introduce me to your kid.” He beamed as he nuzzled your neck.

“I do, Mikey. I trust you enough to let you near the most precious thing in my life.” You blushed, hugging him close to your body.

“I love ya, Baby doll. I promise I’m gonna protect both you.”

Once Joel returned you watched the two bond for what felt like hours before hopping up. “Who wants some ice cream?” You asked, picking up the now empty pizza box. You giggled as both Mikey and Joel raised their hands and hollered excitedly.

While in the kitchen, while you were busy putting together three ice cream Sundays, you listened in on Mikey and Joel talking and laughing. You couldn’t wipe the smile off your face until you heard it…..the thing no mother ever wants to hear being told to their toddler.

“Now these, little dude, are called Nunchucks..”

Your eyes went wide and you bolted right back into to the living room, “MIKEY!”

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iampikachuhearmeroar · 8 years

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ask thingo:

I was requested by @wereallwicked to do all 50 questions of this ask thing, so here you go!! :)

(1.) Do you prefer writing with black or blue pen?

I was really accustomed to writing in blue pen for ages bc of school, but now I like writing in black pen bc well, it matches my soul hahaha. And plus for some reason, blue pens never seem to work anymore lol.

(2.) Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

The country, I’ve lived near the city my whole life there’s too many people!

(3.) If you could learn a new skill, what would it be?

Piano or another musical instrument.

(4.) Do you drink your tea or coffee with sugar?

I drink both my coffee and tea with sugar.

(5.) What was your favourite book as a child?

SO MANY BOOKS. I remember I threw tantrums in bookshops over the Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett bc it was such a beautiful book.

(6.) Do you prefer baths or showers?

FUCK ME, I COULD USE A BATH AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF SHOWERING. Lol, but seriously though I would much rather a long, hot bath with rose petals, candles, a glass of wine or scotch, a box of chocolates and a hot masseuse hahaha. It about to get steamy. Geddit???

(7.) If you could be a mythical creature, which would you choose?

A siren or a harpy.

(8.) Do you prefer reading paper or electronic books?

I love both. But for ease of carrying with uni I’ve become really fond of my Kindle.

(9.) What is your favourite item of clothing?

Either good pair of skinny jeans or a dress.

(10.) Do you like your name? Would you ever change it?

I like my name a lot more now in adulthood considering that people aren’t so rude about it now, like they were in school haha. And no, I don’t think I’d ever change it now.

(11.) Who is a mentor to you?

Idk really.

(12.) Would you ever want to be famous? If so, what for?

I wouldn’t mind being famous for a bit haha. I would like to be a famous author, lol.

(13.) Are you a restless sleeper?

Yes.

(14.) Do you consider yourself a romantic?

Yeah, I do.

(15.) Which element best represents you?

I like to say fire, but the personality tests I’m addicted to doing keep saying that I’m air.

(16.) Who do you want to be closer to?

My friends.

(17.) Do you miss someone at the moment?

Yeah, my closest friends who I haven’t seen in a while.

(18.) Tell us about an early childhood memory.

One childhood memory I have is writing a “story” that was called “The Princess That Almost Died”. It’s actually just the title, about 4 pages worth of scribble and the words “the end”.

(19.) What is the strangest thing you have eaten?

Idk, probably like dragonfruit maybe?

(20.) What can you see outside your bedroom window?

A tree, the escarpment and the lake.

(21.) What are you most thankful for?

My family, my nephew, my cat, my friends and the fact that I’m still kickin’.

(22.) Do you like spicy food?

YAAAAASSSSS

(23.) Have you ever met someone famous?

No, but I could’ve waaaay back in 2010 when I saw Amity Affliction at Albion Park. If only I’d realised that it was actually Joel Birch and Ahren Stringer walking around there at the time. Hahahahahaha.

24. Do you keep a diary or journal?

No... but this blog is kinda like a journal/diary which a few thousand complete strangers look at, lol.

25. Do you prefer to use pen or pencil?

Pen.

26. What is your star sign?

Libra.

27. Do you like your cereal crunchy or soggy?

Soggy af. There needs to be loads of milk.

28. What would you want your legacy to be?

Fuck, this one has stumped me. Probably that I’ve always tried to help people as well as i can?? idk tbh.

29. Do you like reading? What was the last thing you read?

I LOVE READING. Not counting the books I have to read for my uni courses, the last thing I read for my own enjoyment was Mind Whispering by Tara Bennett-Goleman. One book that I’m still reading for uni is Hemingway’s Fiesta. And two that I should really start again and persist with for uni are James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist (which I have to read a good bit of by Friday) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (which I have to read by the end of the month).

30. How do you show someone you love them?

by hugging them and stuff??

31. Do you like ice in your drinks?

yes, depending on what it is.

32. What are you afraid of?

heights, cockroaches, the dark (for it is full of terrors), dying alone (lol) etc.

33. What is your favourite scent?

DKNY apple perfume.

34. Do you address older people by their first or last name?

Their first name.

35. If money was not a factor, how would you live your life?

I would definitely be travelling more often, that for sure haha.

36. Do you prefer swimming in pools or in the ocean?

pools, i’m terrified of swimming in the ocean tbh, bc i can’t swim very well.

37. What would you do if you found $50 on the ground?

try and give back to the person who dropped it.

38. Have you ever seen a shooting star? Did you make a wish?

I think i did, once. I probably did.

39. What is one thing you would want to teach your children?

to be completely and utterly cliche, which i love doing, it’s to treat others as you would like to be treated.

40. If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it?

probably a cat lol, maybe on my back somewhere.

41. What can you hear right now?

Frogs, crickets and my fingers on the keyboard.

42. Where do you feel the safest?

my bed hahaha.

43. What is one thing you want to overcome/conquer?

my anxiety and depression.

(44.) If you could travel back to any era, which would you choose?

Ancient Greece, ya’ll. It’s gon’ be party (mostly) and i’ll have to dress as a guy, but it should be all fun if i avoid the wars.

(45.) What is your most used emoji?

The laugh-cry one, if I was on my phone I’d put it in.

(46.) What is your favourite season? Why?

Depending on my mood, it’s either spring or autumn. I like spring, bc, well, my birthday’s in spring (October). I like autumn bc the weather finally starts to cool down a bit and I’ve always loved the leaves changing colour.

(47.) How would you spend your ideal day?

Reading, writing and drinking wine in the middle of Iceland.

(48.) Describe yourself using one word.

Smart-ass.

(49.) What do you regret the most?

wasting my time on fuckboys.

(50.) Invent your own word. What does it mean?

kit-kat-bickat: a nickname i made for my cat hahahaha.

#life #about me #ask game thing #wereallwicked #thanks katie! :)

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all of those asks!!

flower crown: when did you last sing to yourself?- Literally as I am writing this.

fairy lights: if a crystal ball could tell you the truth about anything, what would you want to know?- The steps to preventing and correcting environmental degradation so that humans don’t destroy the earth entirely or something. Cause I worry about that a lot.

daisies: what is the greatest accomplishment of your life?- I’m eating like a mostly normal person right now, so that’s pretty cool.

1975: what is the first happy memory that comes to mind, recent or otherwise?- I visited the barn yesterday and got in some cuddles with my horse. After the way this week has gone, it was much needed.

matte: if you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living?- Oh, I’m quite sure I would. I don’t know just how, but I would.

black nail polish: do you have a bucket list? if so, what are the top three things?- You know, I actually don’t.

pantone: describe a person close to your life in detail.- She’s a short, outspoken, Italian woman with the sort of personality that reminds you why storms are named after people. She’s tough as nails and won’t take shit from anyone, but is a rock in times of trouble and will fight tooth and nail for anyone she cares about. She has a kind soul and cares oh so deeply. Her profession is rescuing horses and humans.

moodboard: do you feel you had a happy childhood?- Overall, definitely. It was full of days spent reading by the pond, exploring the forests until I could lead you to every animal den in the area, playing make-believe with the neighbor kids, and trying to learn all I could about science and the world around me. There were some rough bits, but it was a good time.

stars: when did you last cry in front of another person?- Last Thursday.

plants: pick a person to stargaze with you and explain why you picked them.- The lovely @noahj99, cause he’s got such a calming presence and is an expert at seeing the beauty in things, and we’d have the option of being super dorky or super deep. Plus he’s really tall so I could get a piggyback and be closer to the stars.

converse: would you ever have a deep conversation with a stranger and open up to them?- I would. I have.

lace: when was your last 3am conversation with someone, and who were they to you?- Last night, with one of my friends from the barn who’s at college right now. She was helping me edit my essay for English class.

handwriting: if you were about to die, and you could only say one more sentence to one person, what would you say and to whom?

cactus: what is your opinion on brown eyes?- I have them. I think they’re lovely on other people.

sunrise: pick a quote and describe what it means to you personally.- “Courage, dear heart.”-C.S. Lewis. It’s something Aslan said to Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia, which my dad always used to read to me before bed when I was little. He would always say this to me when I was scared or going through a rough bit. It’s simplistic, but loving, and a powerful reminder. For me, at least.

oil paints: what would you title the autobiography of your life so far?- “I’m Doing My Best, I Promise”

overalls: what would you do with one billion dollars?- Charity, college fund, and savings account. I’m boring. Maybe I’d buy myself a donkey or something ridiculous.

combat boots: are you a very forgiving person? do you like being this way?- Most of the time, but I can be as petty and vindictive as the best of them. I don’t necessarily like it, but it’s the way I am.

winged eyeliner: write a hundred word letter to your twelve year old self.-

Dear me,

You are loved. There are so many people in the world who care about you more than you care about yourself. Skinny is not the same thing as pretty, and keeping at what you’re doing will only make you tired. Stay soft. Stay loving. Fill the world with as much goodness and kindness as you can. Love people, live slow, work hard, and look for the helpers. I know that it seems hard and like things aren’t gonna get better, but there’s a future for you, love. And for goodness’ sake, spend more time at the barn. It’s good for you.

pastel: would you describe yourself as more punk or pastel?- Pastel, definitely.

tattoos: how do you feel about tattoos and piercings? explain.- Not for me, cause I don’t feel a need to express myself that way, but I respect people who have them. If it means something to you or it makes you feel good about yourself, then who am I to say it’s a bad thing?

piercings: do you wear a lot of makeup? why/why not?- I wear a moderate amount, partly because it makes me feel cute which boosts my self confidence, and partly because I’m just self conscious.

bands: talk about a song/band/lyric that has affected your life in some way.- Our old car had about three CDs in it, so through most of my childhood, I was listening to Billy Joel on the way to school. I don’t know how it’s seriously affected me, other than it’s good music and I think I still have the entire album memorized… Idk, it’s just the first thing I thought of

messy bun: the world is listening. pick one sentence you would tell them.- In the words of the immortal Kurt Vonnegut, “God damn-it, you’ve got to be kind.”

cry baby: list the concerts you have been to and talk about how they make you feel.- I haven’t actually been to that many concerts. I’ve seen Trampled By Turtles and a couple other local bands a couple times, and those were fun, but I generally try to avoid crowds. Again, I’m boring.

grunge: who in the world would you most like to receive a letter from and what would you want it to say?- I have no idea. I just really like getting letters in general

space: do you have a desk/workspace and how is it organised/not organised?- I work all over the house cause I don’t like sitting in one place for a super long time so I move around a lot, and I’ve got a couple spots I really like outside that are good for studying and stuff. So I guess kind of?

white bed sheets: what is your night time routine?- Make tea, shower, skincare crap, brush my teeth, finish whatever homework I have left, and then stay up far too late on this freakin site

old books: what’s one thing you don’t want your parents to know?- I don’t exactly always have the best relationship with food… It’s mostly fine though

beaches: if you had to dye your hair how would you dye/style it and why?- A darker, richer brown than it currently is, and longer, cause it would be cute.

eyes: pick five people to go on an excursion with you. who would you pick and where would you go/what would you do?- @the-tiny-tigress, cause she’s lovely, @calevmir, cause he’s a dork and I like talking to him, @noahj99, cause he is a gr8 person and I enjoy his company, my friend Ellie, cause she’s like a sister to me, and i’m gonna say @apureleaf because she is the sweetest and i’d enjoy getting to know her better and stuff. Lol, sorry if that’s weird. It would be really fun to just, like, pile up in a van and go west and see what we find. Just because.

11:11: name three wishes and why you wish for them.- Happiness for my friends because I care about them, the survival of the science and justice through the next few years cause those things are important and Trump is terrifying, and the restoration of environmental quality because I love forests and oceans and the atmosphere and all of that stuff is going to shit.

painting: what is the best halloween costume you have ever put together? if none, make one up.- Oh man, in fourth grade I dressed up as a dictionary. The cover opened and everything. I was a cool kid.

lightning: what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done while drunk or high?- Doesn’t apply, friends. I am but a child.

thunder: what’s one thing you would never do for one million dollars?- There are a lot of things… I don’t think I could kill anyone though. That’s a pretty safe bet for a hypothetical.

storms: you on only listen to one song for the rest of your life, or only see one person for the rest of your life. which and why?- Only one song, because human connection is important to me, and, as much as I love my music, I could deal. Besides, what would happen if I needed to go to the doctor or someone but couldn’t cause I couldn’t see more than one person? It would be terribly inconvenient.

love: have you ever fallen in love? describe what it feels like to realise you’re in love.- I don’t know.

clouds: if you’re a boy, would you ever rock black nail polish? if you’re a girl, would you ever rock really really short hair?- Probably not, cause I like braiding my hair and stuff, and I really couldn’t pull off that level of badass.

coffee: what’s your starbucks order, and who would you trust to order for you, if anyone?- I just get a small chai latte, sometimes with a shot of cinnamon. It’s not super complicated, and I’m not super particular, so I’d really trust just about anyone.

marble: what is the most important thing to you in your life right now?- Self-discovery. Does that count?

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• A man in all the world’s new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. – William Shakespeare • A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. – Joseph Addison • A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. – Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. – Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties. – Joseph Addison • Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription. – Henry Ward Beecher • After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I’m no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You. – Nicholas Sparks • Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. – Billy Connolly • Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year. – Alice Hoffman • An emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin’ Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack.” Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet. – Darynda Jones • And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops. – Greg Proops • And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the woman who made me wear a frothy, ruffled lime-colored bridesmaid dress that added fifteen pounds to my hips, are going to spill your guts to me, aren’t you? (Sunshine) No fair and the dress wasn’t lime, it was mint. (Selena) It was lime-icky green and I looked like a sick pistachio. (Sunshine) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland’s writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition! – Julia Spencer-Fleming • As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat. – Pliny the Elder

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It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool. – Charles P. Kindleberger • Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints? – George Carlin • Economy, the poor man’s mint. – Martin Farquhar Tupper • Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol’d, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates. – William Cowper • Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. – Don Marquis • For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it’s Church’s and Russell & Bromley. – Matt Smith • Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it – Drake • God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: ‘Who hath required this at your hands?’ This is truly to be ‘righteous over-much,’ as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God’s law, and add supplements of our own to his rule. – William Gurnall • HAPA was like mint. You could rip it up, and six months later, it was back, healthier than ever. Mint smelled better, though, and you could make juleps out of it. I don’t know what I could make out of HAPA. Compost, maybe. – Kim Harrison • He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages. – John Bellairs • He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue. – Jessica Sorensen • Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. – William Shakespeare • Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun, and with him rise weeping. – William Shakespeare • How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society. – Samuel Barber • How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. – Henry David Thoreau • I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared. – Bryan Batt • I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries. – Mervyn Peake • I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end. – Bailey White • I eat anything, especially sweets. Chocolate, cookies, and I love mint-chip ice cream. – Mary McCormack • I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. – Andrew Motion • I have a friend who actually told me that she’d rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she’ll order a salad. If I order a salad, she’ll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she’ll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she’s down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks. – Joy Behar • I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don’t wear deodorant. I don’t have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I’ve had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren’t wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice. – Zach Galifianakis • I loved Morocco. It’s very exotic and different from anywhere I’ve ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional. – Isla Fisher • I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, ‘Kid, you’re going to make a mint in television movies.’ He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects. – Mare Winningham • I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans. – Billy Joel • I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I’m hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I’m scoring a goal in hockey.- Jack Gantos • I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints! – Alice Englert • If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.’ – Aiden Wilson Tozer • If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • If you’d asked me at 30 where I’d be during the Masters when I was 46, I’d have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television. – Jack Nicklaus • I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.- Patti Smith • In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that’s inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes – Morgan Spurlock • In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed. – Hunter S. Thompson • It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. – Waverley Root • It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. – John Green • It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again. – Maggie Stiefvater • It’s clear, it’s fresh, like a mint candy. – Margaret Atwood • Ive never drunk coffee. Im convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea. – Saffron Aldridge • Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints. – Diablo Cody • Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. – Kim Harrison • Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown. – Louise Imogen Guiney • Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed. – Iggy Azalea • Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, ‘Tis not with me exactly so; But ’tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more. – John Quincy Adams • My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass. – Serena Williams • My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin. – Holly Black • My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket. – W. P. Kinsella • My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho’ she isn’t always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. – Charles Farrar Browne • Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. – Thomas B. Macaulay • Now if I cry on screen I think it’s mint. Because I think that’s how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn’t, then it just doesn’t happen. – Michael B. Jordan • Number of empty Ben & Jerry’s containers: 3 – two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, anyway? Is there a greater waste?) – Ally Carter • Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles. – Tennessee Williams • Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. ‘Kiss me,’ he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter’s shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie’s lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. ‘I’m glad I wasn’t stuck in here alone,’ she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath. – Jodi Picoult • Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?” “In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. – Sarah Dessen • Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. – Ray Bradbury • Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. – Jim Bishop • She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. – Anthony Marra • Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone’s bees. You can’t untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that’s left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they’re still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey. – Osip Mandelstam • That the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds. – Charles Dickens • The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything. – Josh Turner • The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi. – Arthur Koestler • The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. – Nathaniel Hawthorne • The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you’ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul. – Lissa Rankin • The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods – ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep – have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq! – Annia Ciezadlo • The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. – Evan Esar • The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I’ve gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there. – Nikki Jean • The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It’s like a septic tank saying, ‘You need a mint.’ – Bill Maher • The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours. – Kealan Patrick Burke • The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) – he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance – in the real world and online. – Aaron Patzer • The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. – Langston Hughes • The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones’ arrangement of “One Mint Julep.” I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make. – Booker T. Jones • The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men. – John Gerard • The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. – Mary MacLane • The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. – Alexander Smith • The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world. – Jack Kerouac • Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. – Alexander Pope • They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things– I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life’s ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There’s so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. – Lisa Ann Sandell • Tic Tacs are the maracas of breath mints. – Demetri Martin • Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they’re the strongest – Natalie Portman • Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?’ it must be here. they can’t have eaten that… i dunno, Nik, what do they do?’ POO. – Angie Sage • What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt. – Walter Dean Myers • When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it…then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass. – Simonne Jacquemard • When Hale’s hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn’t exactly sure what he’d find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except… “Is that an earbud?” she whispered. He smiled. “Are you on comms?” “Shhh,” he told her softly. – Ally Carter • Whether the darken’d room to muse invite, Or whiten’d wall provoke the skew’r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. – Alexander Pope • Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints. – Rick Riordan • Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. 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"Flight Into Terror" | Father Ted | Series 2 Episode 10 | Dead Parrot

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Ted i’ll be historic play effectively i’m sure same as yourself haha who about it oh that’s father Joe in short an ancient friend of mine some equal columns however we simply have a nickname from there what was a sham Oh humorous I used to name him Emma pricey Joe get all this hair drawing between his toes used to remind us of the abominable snowman and the juvinity head no I didn’t you musta had one no father in brief what do you remember at all what Ted’s nickname was once that’s in columns Oh see now watch this as well no one purchased a Joel i like hiya my says this was once father floppy passion although the priest caught a look of my year end in the showers after a recreation of soccer one once I had all this some downy fluff growing round that entire area oh yeah father fluffy button hilarious discontinue actual and what did you do in the end shave it off shift off prime stuff twelve quilt all correct father in short do extra floppy Barnum due to the fact that we had this large load of floppy hair on this behind what you doing the tip head shave it off no I didn’t you are not able to do away with palms long enough treats do not you bear in mind what they referred to as you him in there Joe since of all that thick black hair developing between your toes that was honestly a medical that is your pilot talking fasten your seat belts we will quickly be kicking off Oh who did that ah someone messing there what’d you get Dougal on account that this the gift store back at the airport what do goodwill already have a tape dispenser back on the condo what did you purchase that one for ah that is no traditional one time what undoubtedly splendid already i will be able to consider of countless numbers of you surfers Gilligan the place did you seem what’s this do squeeze it there is a shaggy dog story mobile Duggal this can be a dog toy what no it’s not cat it is a funny story mobile youngsters this can be a toy for puppies this is some thing humans supply their dogs on the birthday seriously Ted it’s a comic story cell we just depart it to anybody and inform them at the phone and they’re going to try and make a telephone name on them children who would believe this is a mobilephone even a canine is aware of is not the cell okay we will comply with vary all correct no we will not conform to difference considering you’re very very wrong appear to the photograph on the package deal not even provide you with a clue why do you think the canine looks so happy he’s glad given that somebody has given him a yellow robber mobilephone that makes a noise no no he’s laughing in view that any person’s trying to make a mobilephone call on the phone so the puppies shouldn’t have the same variety of humorousness so they are now not as evolved as off why just buy anything smart like this for instance no put a coin in that that’s superb what’s it I notion a money field but you already know what whatever like this to be so effortless to make it a low-cost and cheesy however watching of their pure type now come on now the joke all of it right here we go Oh God before taking off the do candidate when the be event on account that of the aircraft crash yes for Harvard you simply fell out of the aircraft if the power does disappear it is Monday and also you simply fell out and you’d be falling for ages and a while and a while somewhat bit higher Ted no lugal not rather no tell you what maybe i’m going to provide Larry difficult he developed a worry of flying finally those crashes he used to be in he went to hypnotherapist to remedies instructed me I would give him a call every time I used to be feeling nervous old for this God good what was once that bit of Tropes god I wish it wasn’t so nervous you realize Larry told me as soon as you’re more probabilities being trampled by using a herd of stampeding donkeys then you have not been killed within the aircraft crash no he’s no longer picking up ok father endure oh hi is very good oh yeah i’m an extraordinarily big fan of his own correct or should I say oh no ass there isn’t a point out of it up to now you wish to have me to take about to see the copper k okay can i have a look too Oh nineteen sizes equal coming brother high-quality Dougal appear don’t touch some thing we do not want an action replay off the ceiling on the spot all right fair ample head down these are the predominant controls who over right here we now have the gauges four engines one to it I was handiest asking if you’ve ever been in a cook dinner location earlier than no but on the bridge on the ceiling 31 and it was once funny but I used to be looking on the manage of the whole lot oh and nothing happened at all proper whats up come on although what you’re humorous let me simply come on now the jokes over and then who’re you what do you imply Who am I you’re blind i am the person you might have been messing with portions of street i will pay for the entire ride no longer comprehend why you’re laughing then what is the gigantic snort about i am listening to comedy on these it is mr.Bean all correct yes i’m blind the fact is it can be better this is a more latest factor you recognize considering the fact that Paris rice that is beautiful fascinating but I I believe your other senses make offers I hear that with blind individuals there their different senses turn out to be more alert in an effort to converse I suppose you can scent factor from ten miles away in there they hear matters before they happen no no Sixth experience of any style and that i consider for your case will likely be hits and casinos you best bought the 4 good that was one more one lacking that I have no idea about audio sensor option hahahahaha would you go away now be high-quality I just do that they thanks to mr.Pilot da roca no longer see the connection is not right Isis move the historical bathroom is them is the bathroom firstclass toilet so do you will have a first-class ticket no then i am afraid you have to go across the best way hey boss can i have a fast phrase yes get home correct what’s unsuitable do that method and moderate problem Ted wash well it seems that any one are pressed a button within the vehicle after which anyone with the gas I feel I suppose the individual might have emptied some of the fuel tanks by mistake so anyway there may be not a major makes to the airport correct so that would imply what precisely an emergency touchdown or some thing yeah an emergency touchdown correct proper but the factor is Ted we don’t certainly have adequate fuel to make it to a position the place we will make an emergency touchdown and in addition there is handiest two parachutes on board no where’s a second do that earlier than you carry on what you say the name of this movie used to be again no no no no it is outstanding no longer so no so like that is truely happening sure this is happening now to us it’s yeah Duggal here’s a mad visitor just all of the sudden versum did you press the button discover hiya come on did you do Bert I did you hiya Ted have you heard the news sure no what do we do it has any individual press the emergency button no well mustn’t an individual supply it a go careful Ted I might be affine for flawed use is absolutely an emergency I consider truly the fundamental factor is to maintain your the clergymen account not a phrase about this we get again within nothing occurs what does it do not and that i needed it earlier than father who will get the parachute garden that is a difficult resolution oh you are right there ok maybe we must just now not tell any individual about them pull them off the airplane got here to on no account existed no do but i don’t feel we should try this i’ve a like this my dear clearly I suppose what we will have to do is that this so in no more than 200 words why you should get a parachute so good we should simply write about how pleasant we’re yes I acquired my housekeeper pregnant a couple years ago will drive her to depart the country must I point out that no i wouldn’t are you going to take marks off it spelling errors only if we turn out to be in a tie-smash main issue who possess the copyright on this what good say if I was to outlive and wish to write my autobiography might i use extracts from this factor i’ll write or would you own the copyright as far as i know you possess the copyright method frankly possibilities about surviving are very very long must we no longer simply have somewhat of an old professional I imply perhaps God will support us all of us bought pens and paper and the whole thing can i use my computing device computer and i do not suppose you are allowed to make use of them at inter damaging are not they they intervene with the radar yes but we’ll crash anyway right proper I see what you imply melted sure customers can do blah you’re very calm all collectively you gone mad or anything no just I’ve continuously hated flying however now that we’re in an emergency hindrance all my fears just changed awareness to affirmative motion do you know what I imply I do it until you know all correct then arms down ah father O’Shea you failed to stop writing i’m afraid you are disqualified up quite some distance the cave do you need to move first i haven’t written this down seeing that it comes from the center frantic Gallaher I’ve identified you and being your pals for decades and now I feel it’s principal to say i really like you i love you greater than any person I’ve ever cherished I do not need the parachute correct good completed for the cave he’ll be just a medication and i consider I should get the parachute considering i am great actually I consider I will have to get both the parachutes in case one of them does not work the wellknown ones Oh father play the fucking Jew proper i have not written something considering i’m no longer very good at that style of factor however I did a drawing right particularly just right can we have now a look what do you feel good it’s me within the neck with a canine how how does that aid you win a parachute what television parachute I wasn’t listening it’s Derek why would I want to parachute the planes in obstacle and there’s a competition to look who will get a parachute okay father Jack are you next father Jack where’s father jackals parachute the parachutes have gone you ah okay I simply do not forget that we’re all going to die google it I just desired to say i know sometimes i am just a little in need of you generally i’m now not as patient as they should be however you already know sooner or later we are the exceptional of associates what do you mean i am simply seeking to say i know normally I act like probably you get my nerves however I suppose secretly I feel it’s fairly humorous what’s humorous you know the way you combine things up and in many instances you aren’t getting what is going on on who’re you speakme about once more you what about me i’m simply trying to say Google I such as you thanks very so much do you saying that to you i guess set it there good day we’re all enjoying you understand the section tubing stabilizing godets no you realize what a shell diversify efore 20 years no you already know the Chet wrench three ply shorts a case no you realize who i am you’re the pilot high-quality i know what I did there I started to bake you recognize what a gas reserve is well i’d suppose it from style of general back as much as the main gasoline tanks that is precisely it now we have a gasoline reserve however the line connecting it to there nothing on the wing engines aspect that line is damaged if we could by some means fix that line we might stand a danger even sticky tape would do however I’ve requested round and there is none on the plane that is four you’re incorrect Google provide us something you purchased there your entire problems are over i would not make any calls father and interface with radar to women the sticky tape bridge that each one you have got to do is get out of the aircraft climb onto the Queen’s we beneath the fuselage and connect the road and then have been saved yes so I just climb out of the aircraft sufficient hold on however I climb out of the airplane yes i would not trust someone else father you have already proved which you could preserve a level head then i will do it what Ted doodle i love all this when the whole lot’s going okay I keep imagining the entire terrible things that may happen and now that one of those things that sincerely occurred it is just a rush I believe fearless like Jeff Bridges in that movie i haven’t visible that one no longer many people have doogal is more often than not a bad reference anyway let’s go captain father i am not a captain and i am no longer anybody who climbs underneath planes to fix fuel traces I consider any further or some thing we need to be excellent there will be a priest very brave man fuck i am just doing a funny story Dougal geeky child well I higher get again to the cockpit just right good fortune solitaire wait with a nigga sure I sealed up the knife with a oh exceptional I’ve gotta do that we’re going to reside the whole thing’s utterly back to ordinary mentioned it’s just your completely ordinary day they covered our backyard airplane trip ah what am i doing on the second weed all proper proper thanks very a lot well overlooked i’m nonetheless not gonna hassle jack oh i hope he is all right and father clearly I hate seeing him like this i starting to loosen his grip now something we will light the sandwich i cocked them into the shape of an airplane i know thank you mrs.Doyle I think Ted and me have had sufficient of airplanes to do with a lifetime ha ha ha ha ha haven’t we lifeless your mom talking the emergency is over we will be able to be landing in 20 minutes .

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Peaceful Heart FarmCast Intro

Peaceful Heart FarmCast – Intro

Today’s Peaceful Heart FarmCast is about how we came to live the homestead life and how we decided to create a small artisan cheese business.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

What happened last year, where did I go?

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

Updates on the farm and creamery

Preview of upcoming topics

Homestead Recipe

What Happened Last Year, Where Did I Go?

First, I want to address what happened last year and where I am at the present time. I was podcasting regularly, twice a month. And even though the recorded podcasts were 45 minutes to an hour, it took more than an entire day to make that happen. Once spring came on in full force, I was overwhelmed with caring for animals and the garden.

There was no time left for anything that did not contribute to furthering of the farm enterprise. That included my podcast hobby. So, I just stopped it and took care of what was in front of me.

I’ve spent the winter catching up and getting better organized. So here I am, back at it again, this time with a better plan for using my hobby as part of the farm business plan. I’ll talk about the topics I plan to cover a little bit later. For my current subscribers, I hope you’ll decide to stay with me, but if not, I appreciate our time together and wish you the best. You have an open invitation to revisit and rejoin anytime.

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

Now I’m pleased to launch the Peaceful Heart FarmCast. I’m excited about what I have lined up for you guys. If you are a regular subscriber, you may have noticed that the intro with the purpose of the podcast has changed.

While I enjoyed talking about the crazy stuff that is going on in the world, it added little to my life goals on the farm. In fact, it is quite removed from my life on the farm. As I mentioned, publishing a podcast takes quite a lot of time and effort and I need to optimize my time. The farm pushes on and waits for no one. You better be ready. I’ll be sharing more stories about what that means as we go forward.

Perhaps you’ve thought of making the rural life happen for you and your family – or perhaps you’re thinking about a homestead in suburban America. I hope to help you with ideas and encouragement. It truly is a fabulous lifestyle, filled with ups and downs, but well worth it.

Or perhaps you don’t want to make that kind of commitment to gardens and animals yourself, but you want to partake of the benefits of what other land and animal caretakers produce. Perhaps you want to learn to cook from scratch or add variety to your current recipes using the great seasonal products you buy at your farmer’s market. That’s great too.

Much of what I will talk about can be done in even the smallest household, the smallest kitchen, no land and animals required. Just a desire to learn how to care for your family with your own two hands. Technology is great. I’m using it right now. But there is something deeply satisfying in creating safe and wholesome food for your family. There is an inner peace that comes from personally crafting the dishes with ingredients you can trust.

That’s why I’m focusing on tradition and traditional techniques that will enhance our lives and bring a deeper fulfillment to everyday life. The way that happens is creating and/or passing on a tradition. That entails knowing the words to convey to bring wisdom or having skill with a particular technique or method of creating an end product, and passing it on. But more importantly, it means knowing why we do it that way and passing that along as well. A tradition can turn into dogma without passing along the reason why it is done that way.

Why did the tradition start? Is it still relevant for you today? If so, we learn it, do it, and pass it on. That is how tradition is built. There is a reason that things were done a certain way. And if circumstances change that require altering a tradition, it is important that changes are thought about deeply and then incorporated as necessary. These are difficult questions. Just because new technology comes along doesn’t mean it will replace a tradition. These are individual choices that you will all make based on your own set of core values. I hope to provide thought provoking ideas to help you with making some of those decisions.

If you love trivia and history, this is going to be both educational and entertaining for you. If you are looking to live the homestead life or already are, I’ll be sharing my day-to-day learning experiences and ideas to help you with working through the long list of tasks, problems and solutions that you will encounter. At the end of each podcast I’ll give an overview and description of a recipe that may become part of your tradition. There will be corresponding download link to the recipe in the show notes.

Updates on the Farm and Creamery

Now I want to better introduce myself, my husband and a little bit about our history of how we came to be farm homesteaders after professional careers in medicine and information technology.

Present

Let’s start with the present time. We have 62 acres in the Blue Ridge mountains. We are building a creamery to make artisan farmstead cheese. Our cheese is handmade using traditional methods. That requires cows. We also have sheep for meat, goats for fiber and donkeys for livestock protection.

We raise a traditional breed of cow. They are Normandes, bred and raised in the Normandy region of France. Normandes are a dual breed cow. That means they provide lots of milk but also make really, really good beef. I’m going to be talking much more about these cows as I talk about our cheese.

That’s our homestead in a nutshell. But how did we get here? Scott spent 20 years as a chiropractor before entering into the electronic medical records IT field. I was an IT professional for just about my entire career. So again, how did we get here?

I know you’re asking because you might want to get here someday as well. And why did we make that decision? I mean, isn’t having a successful career the be-all, end-all of life? Nope. It’s not. Or at least not for us. Our life experiences led us to a desire to get in touch with the land directly. It wasn’t enough to look at the mountains from afar. We needed to connect to the roots of our spirit. We wanted to go outside at night and gaze in awe at the Milky Way.

After years of dreaming, planning, and saving we are here. We watch the birth of animals and are continually amazed at creation. Sure, there is loss and sadness when an animal dies. It happens often in nature, but there is also life and joy.

Past

We began our dream back in 1999 in Western North Carolina. That’s 20 years ago as of this publication. We met, became friends, and started talking about our dream life. We spent hours reading and talking and pouring over articles and books by Joel Salatin. I think he is the gateway for a lot of people. We began to dream our dream out loud with each other and with our friends and family.

But like for most of you, I’m sure, life happens. It was a great dream, but we had to make money to live, right? It takes a lot to make a small farm profitable enough to support a family. So, the dreams were sidelined for a little while – but not forgotten. We kept talking about it. And we kept dreaming about it. We kept planning what we would do. And in 2003 we bought our first piece of land. In 2005 we married and moved onto that land. At this recording, that first purchase was 15 and a half years ago.

During 13 of those years we continued to work for others. We were making really good money. We were determined to make the journey debt-free. We persevered in pretty radical circumstances. Perhaps I’ll talk about that at some point also.

Buying additional land in 2008 set us back in our timeline to be full time homestead farmers, but in January 2016 we made our last payment on the land and in December 2016, we left working for someone else in the rearview mirrors.

We Made It

From 2003 to 2016 is 13 years. I know a lot of you plan to just sell the house in the city and move to the country and make a living off the land. And maybe you will. Maybe you’re one of those that risks it all and just dives in. You’ve got that entrepreneurial spirit strong and you go for it. Not for us. We took the longer road.

Our priority was to be able to enjoy the life. We wanted to live without the threat of adverse weather or disease derailing our business plan. When the loan comes due, the bank wants its money. We didn’t want that hanging over our head every, lurking in the back of our minds every day.

The delay provided us the opportunity to learn how to become farmers and homesteaders as well as to develop the entrepreneurial spirit. Did you know that could be learned? Well, we are still learning. It doesn’t come naturally. But if you have the dream and you want to make it work, you need to learn how to make money on your homestead. It’s the slow, sure path for us. I want to give a shout out to Tim Young at Small Farm Nation. He is offering his vast experience in marketing as well as the needed technological tools to help you build a profitable farm. Link in the show notes.

Deciding to build the creamery also set us back in our time line goal to stop working for others. It is a great way to make the homestead profitable, but requires tremendous infrastructure and that means a lot of monetary investment. But like any dream you are committed to, you keep at it until it becomes your reality. All in all, as I mentioned, it was 13 years from first purchase to homestead living. And 17 years from conception of the idea. But we are here now. The last 2 years have been all that we imagined and more.

I can’t convey in words how peaceful and contented we are now that we are fulltime homesteading. It’s a lot of work, no doubt. And it is worth every drop of sweat, every sore muscle, every exhausted night of sleep. There are a lot of those days. And there are a lot of other days filled with awe and wonder at, not just looking at nature from afar or from your house on the side of the mountain, but days filled with awe and wonder at being IN that life.

That’s all I’m going to say about that for right now. Let me know if you have questions about how you might make that journey and what your plans are. I talked about our path but yours will be different. It’s unique for everyone.

Preview of Upcoming Topics

I’ll provide you with more information about our specific journey and the current homestead enterprises we manage in future podcasts. Updates on the status of the creamery will be front and center.

There will be lots of information on cheese – and specifically the history and tradition around this artisan craft. I’ll also include other historical traditions related to living the homestead life.

Some upcoming topics are:

how did cheese get started in the first place?

how a lot of the different cheeses were developed and where.

What were the life conditions present that led to the development of that particular cheese in that area?