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The "Time comes to bargain" series from Febuwhump 2024 (which I realised I never posted as a set. Whoops)
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What do you mean Charles basically just did meet the in-laws with Max's uncle and his kid cousin?
#f1#formula 1#formula one#max verstappen#charles leclerc#lestappen#seriously though charles is so kind and good to the young aspiring drivers#maxs uncle saying thank you for making his kid happy#one of the reasons why Charles is one of my favorite drivers#wish certain people who are more stalkers than fans would stop taking advantage of him and his kindness#i haven't forgotten him having to literally bargain stopping for every person he meets so that they don't come to his HOME at all hours#he should never have had to do that#those people do not deserve a second of time
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Imagine what it must have been like for Mark Twain to see Ulysses S. Grant write his memoirs. Twain's a successful career author, who, like all writers, knows firsthand the struggle of getting words on a page, knows how painstakingly slow and frustrating the writing process can be. And here's Grant, with no literary training whatsoever, dying of cancer, barely sleeping or eating because of the excruciating pain, regularly writing 10,000 words a day. And it's good.
I'd be tempted to give up writing right there. How do you compete with that? You can't be jealous of the guy, because of the whole "dying of cancer" thing, and yet...it's gotta just about drive you nuts. It just about drives me nuts. In good health, I can work for hours to get a few sentences on a page. And then this guy's showing us all up. It's maddening.
#random thought of the day#adventures in writing#presidential talk#feeling this strongly tonight#as i look at how pathetically little i've written in the last few months#despite a lot of time commitment#with almost nothing written that's actually going to be used#it's crushing#and then our buddy ulys came to mind because i finally finished the presidential letters book#and he got a couple at the end#written during the mexican war and his california years#and i was struck by his eye for detail even then#his clear-eyed perception of a place and the clear way he lays out a landscape#exactly the kind of thing that filled his book thirty-odd years later#and when writing comes so hard it's a combination of awe and frustration to see someone for whom it comes so easily#what a fun post you get presidential facts and my own insecurities at the same time!#an absolute bargain!
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i don't want to post here today can you guys just watch aventurine bidding farewell to his past self
#look at the child you used to be. tattered and worn but so full of love and hope for a better tomorrow#you decided your luck is a curse because it's kept you alive and you stopped valuing life when you lost your sister#you keep trying to gamble it away. and you win every bet every time#and yet... your hands shake and you secretly fear you'll lose with every new gamble#riddle me that kakavasha.#you were never as ready to give up as you convinced yourself you were#your family gave up everything... so You could live. and try as you might you never actually wanted to squander those sacrifices#set down your cards and throw away all your bargaining chips#pay no mind to the black hole at the end of everything. it's time you learned to value your life again#this world is precious. the emanator of nihility said so herself. hold her words close to your heart#and when you come out on the other side of it all... free of the IPC's chains. i hope you learn to see it all anew#my stomach hurts
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Dormammu, I've Come To Bargain
A prompt based on this scene from the 2016 film Doctor Strange. The powerful entity Dormammu, who by all means should be able to defeat the Doctor due to its strength, is trapped in a time loop by him. He will not stop resetting time until he gets Dormammu to listen to him, ergo keeping a much stronger being prisoner in one moment in time. He knows he cannot defeat Dormammu, but he can keep him busy, unstuck in time in order to spare the rest of humanity from its wrath. The doctor dies many times in the loop, restarting it each one to achieve his goal of keeping Dormammu stuck.
As such, this prompt refers to any setting in which a character dies within the context of a time loop.
#killacharacter#killacharacterbingo#writing challenge#bingo challenge#writing event#whump#writing bingo#bingo card#whumpee#whump prompt#doctor strange#dormammu#dormammu i've come to bargain#time loop#resetting time#MCU
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Realistically I know Roier hasn't been streaming because it's been 100+ F in Mexico all week and that sucks, but lore-wise I think Cucurucho / the Federation shot him with a tranquilizer dart the day after the wedding because they could NOT risk having him interfere with the elections.
#i talk#qsmp talk#This is one of those times where I'm like ''how could we explain this lore-wise?''#and come up with a horrific answer#and quickly have to dial it back and be like ''alright edgelord let's tone it down a bit. How can we make this funny''#Real talk though Roier has been ''asleep'' for so long#@Cellbit BOY GET YOUR HUSBAND TO THE HOSPITAL#then again. the only hospital is the Federation hospital. so maybe not#I'm already in the middle of one Roier fic but this makes me want to write another#we could also say ''maybe ElQuackity did something to him and will use that as a bargaining chip to make Cellbit drop out of the race''#but that's less fun
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desperately running characters through history lessons but savanaclaw refuses to let anyone else do anything
#vincent plays twst#ruggie please#jack sometimes gets a word in#i need them leveled up but like. there are three other characters in this class. please#diasomnia may come when bargained but savanaclaw sticks to me like glue#anyone remember that time i bargained everything i could think of for trey#smut included. of course#only to be met with two dorm jacks and a dorm leona immediately#why are they like this. what do i do with this
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V funny to me at least but my bf's frame of reference when it comes to media is absolutely fucking terrible, like they don't watch tv they barely watch movies they just melt their brain on youtube 12+ hours a day and then ask me stuff like "who's billy crystal" as if im supposed to be able to explain that to someone who just doesnt watch television.
anyway before we were dating i posted a screenshot from Sharkman on twitter like "bruh this dude is making furries instead of curing cancer" and fen literally fucking IMMEDIATELY responded to me saying "oh my god is this from Hammerhead: shark frenzy"
Girl...... how do YOU know hammerhead shark frenzy 👀
#their scope when it comes to movies is So offkilter and insane they still catch me offguard w this kind of stuff#never heard of some of the biggest blockbusters of all time but Has seen some deeply obscure bargain bin b movies
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god help me i'm going insane about dickson xenoblade again
#this is what i get for thinking about lord of the rings too hard this week (specifically denethor / gríma / saruman and the like)#thinking about the way anthony may delivered “when will you learn you HAVE no future?”#he thinks shulk is fully DEAD at that point. he thinks HE killed him. which he very much meant to. but now that the kid is no longer there#now that the terrible future he's been preparing for and actively working to bring about has in fact come about#i don't know that dickson really cared anymore. he played his part he did the deed expected and he did it unquestioningly. So What Now?#well. now nothing. now the world that he spent so long biding his time in; so long getting enmeshed in (even for nefarious purposes)#is about to end; is about to be gone forever.#sure zanza will probably just create another world and maybe he (dickson) will have Even More Power in the new one#(though that's not a given! he doesn't know for SURE his lord and god will keep his promise!)#but like. what the hell does he care at this point#dickson SAYS he wants power but i suspect that long long ago what the giant dickson really wanted was SURVIVAL.#we never get to know just how he became a disciple or what the giant civilization looked like in its heyday or how it ended#but in MY headcanon dickson saw that some kind of destruction coming and he wanted Out#and maybe he hated his peers and figured any power and prestige that came from this bargain was just a bonus#i think he thought of himself as a saruman type: powerful; remote; far above the petty troubles of mortals (even the long-lived high entia)#but i have always headcanoned that by his later days (i.e. when he started engaging w/colony 9; machina village; etc. in earnest)#he committed too hard to the bit and started “going native” as it were; started to give a shit in ways that he would never dare admit#maybe not as much of a shit as; you know; a regular guy would. but more than an immortal disciple and horseman of the apocalypse should.#and all the time knowing that all the world he'd seen would soon be gone#maybe everyone else can get fucked. but shulk had to die too. and that's what their god MADE them to do.#he can't allow himself to care or to hope for another option bc in his mind it's already over; decided; that's it#what else can you do in the face of ultimate power but bow to it and take whatever scraps may fall to an obedient servant?#“you have no future” nor does he except that shulk came back. except that the peoples of bionis/mechonis just wouldn't accept Fate.#and in some final rebellious corner of his mind he starts putting eggs in shulk's basket. “if they can't even defeat telethia they won't#stand a chance against me (or zanza)” so let's see if they CAN. oh they did? how about a dragon? oh fuck they defeated the dragon too?#well fuck. maybe there WAS another option all along. but will/can they stand against me; the final disciple? oh they can??#guess i'll die then bc i'm not looking THAT in the face. i am NOT unpacking my cowardice/failure/lack of vision after all these years.#good luck with that tho <3 you're welcome for the training btw. where i'm going i don't have to see your trauma assuming you live that long.#dickson#xenoblade
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I'm a simple man if someone tells me they'll be around at 2 to purchase something from me I expect to hear from them at 2
#ma'am come get these goddamn plants#I'm selling them to you at a bargain and don't have time for your shit
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Skitch is the ACNH player that runs around smacking people with their bug catching net while Wanda gives the best gifts ever. Also I could totally see Skitch being like filthy rich in the game cause of all the fish and bugs and being like “hold on baby I got you” and just dropping off a bunch of bells on Wanda’s island and running away to go harass her villagers.
Skitch is deadass a menace with the net 😂
But yeah, Wanda definitely gives s-tier gifts in-game. I think one of the only things Wanda focuses on collecting herself are the nook miles that come with the different achievements, but bells are never an issue with Skitch funding her bell bank account 💀
#rough cut diamonds#wanda and skitch playing acnh#skitch is just runnin around bopping everybody with their net for funsies#they're basically love taps like come on#wanda scolding skitch for terrorizing her neighbors is also on brand#like you're gonna make them wanna leaveeee#but dropping off a bag of bells behind her house usually takes the edge off#skitch doesn't do it too much. just every once in a while#fish is definitely used as a bargaining chip#and it's not that skitch hasn't already caught the fish that's being traded. skitch just thinks they're neat and want extras#wanda and skitch time#jeweler!wanda#skitch#wanda maximoff#metalworker!reader#wanda maximoff x reader#rcd.headcanons#ib/skitch#ink.wanda#ib-jc.
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What blends does Puukko put in her pipe... I wonder...
Back in her pirate days, it was pretty much just whatever got plundered from other ships! She didn't do much experimenting aside from trying whatever she got her paws on. These days, living in the lonely mountains, she tries to get dried or fresh herbs and unique blends from wherever her travels take her or from the odd traveling salesman. Usually, she'll mix up a big batch to have on hand for a while. Something like 3 parts tobacco, 1 part lavender buds, a pinch of rose petal, and 1/2 part mint for a little tingle on the back. But what she has on hand and the ratio she uses varies.
Ahhh I'm so glad people are taking an interest in her again lately, makes me all sorts of giddy when someone asks me about her! Thanks for the ask! ❤️
#smokey answers#capitan's cabin#a little bit of mint in a pipe goes a long way. i dont smoke a pipe super often these days for both health and time reasons but thats close#to how i used to do it. but id never do a big batch id just change the spec each time and make it a long ritual. comes out better that way#main issue is my tobaccanist closed up shop. and im not going back to the dark ages of when i first started...#smoking those bargain bag big pouches of cheapo dry dry nasty stuff#i figure if im gonna do something unhealthy i might as well do it the best way i can#plus if u only like the fancy stuff youll find its much easier to put down a bad habit
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i love jean valjean so much i could drown in my own tears
#he’s so…..#how was i to know at last that happiness could come so fast trusting me the way you do i’m so afraid of failing you#your child will want for nothing#none shall ever harm cosette as long as i am living#she’s the best of my life#it’s the story of those who loved you#there’s a castle just waiting for you#if i die let me die let him live bring him home bring him home bring him home#you are free and there are no conditions no bargains or petitions there’s nothing that i blame you for#okay also#when he gives her the doll…..#when little cosette hugs him and he freezes because this is new to him but then he hugs her so so tightly#when she hugs him right after everyday and he still pauses before hugging her because he still can’t believe she’s real and she loves him#and he loves her so much#he fucking. he’s fine with dying. if he dies whatever let him die. but marius?? let him live#because he’s had so much time to love and care for cosette#and now she’s in love and all he has ever wanted is her happiness. he would die for her happiness. he’s begging god to take him if he must#but spare marius. and then they’re both spared. so valjean carries him. just so fueled with the love he has for his daughter#takes him all the way home. doesn’t even take credit for it#the only reward for anything he’s ever wanted is cosette’s happiness#i’m so. guys i love valjean so much. i love everyone in les mis but he’s been my number one guy since day one and it’s staying that way#oh my god#les mis
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rgu girlies vs actually thinking about touga’s character for .2 seconds
#maybe im a little bit :/ about Some People’s kiryuu sibling takes#as a self appointed kiryuu sibling expert. they are both anthy in very different ways#nanami is anthy in all technicalities. she fits the casting call. she’s the little sister who wants to be loved and she’ll be cruel about it#but touga and anthy have so many similarities as PEOPLE. that are just. like girl#hollow people empty people an absence of anything other than the costume you wear#the gendered ideal you’ve come to embody#the passive aggression the subtle slights the deep unspoken resentment expressed quietly#the impenetrable aura of mystery and fear and power and like. gahhhhhh#like hey man. hey. hey. go read the body as a bargaining chip AND anthy nanami and escaping the script on empty movement#and maybe you’ll calm down <3#ANYWAY SORRY FOR BEING MEAN ANTHY NANAMI AND TOUGA R MY TRIAD OF FAVES IM ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT THEM WHATEVER WHATEVER#to clarifyyyyyy bc i don’t want discourse <3 idc about this sincerely tis just telly#not moralising just saying hey :) try thinking about touga when watching 31&2 it’s a fun time#fun if you’re like me and just think about the kiryuus 24/7#on a serious note i DO think that nanami anthy and touga watches of those eps are like >>>#like youve GOT to do it. sososososo worth#shut up daisy
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Dormammu, I Want My Fucking Life Back
Ned: How old is your mom now, Peter? Thirty?
MJ: No way! After fighting that space demon he has to be at least, what, one hundred years old! Right?
Peter: ...
Also Peter: I gotta make a call.
#Doctor Dad#Spiderson#Peter Parker#Ned Leeds#Michelle Jones#Dormammu I've Come to Bargain#Over a Million Times
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rio’s mic has the potential to be the only mic that works post rei takeover being a prototype mic, and harmonious cooperation showed us that anybody can share a mic, via shakku kicking kuukou’s ass with hitoya’s, so it’d be neat to see that be a thing again i think!!!!
#this is vee speaking#quick!!!!! chuuoku infiltration mission with mtc and maybe the rest of rio’s old team to save his commander!!!!!#and mtc passes the mic around lol!!!!!!#does rio’s squad all have prototypes??? 🤔🤔🤔 like could they potentially be given to 17 (16) other people lmao#i think it would be really cool if rei took root in chuuoku just to make the mics stay off#and to nurse his wife back to health lol#like i know that 0️⃣💉📿 event from arb had rei coming to kuukou for help but sensei has literally ALWAYS been in rei’s plans#*slaps rei’s comedian teacher doctor lawyer verse in ah osaka dreaming night*#rei just casually bargains for jakurai’s time lol MAN I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IM SO EXCITED#c: rio
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